New research has been published in Blockchain in Health Today Platform Approaches open access peer reviewed journal. Keep up to date and get an edge on innovation in the field. Explore why BHTY leads specialty journal leads the market. The deadline to submit your research, report, or editorial, is March 31, 2025. Upload your work to the submission portal here. Upload your work to the submission portal here.

Current Issue Highlights
Systematic Review of Usability Factors, Models, and Frameworks with Blockchain Integration for Secure Mobile Health (mHealth) Applications

SLR: Usability standards and models for mHealth Applications
Irum Feroz, PhD, Nadeem Ahmad, PhD

This systematic review examines critical usability factors that influence the adoption of mobile health (mHealth) applications among older adults and identifies gaps in current usability models, including ISO 9241-11, Nielsen’s heuristics, and PACMAD. The review also explores the potential role of blockchain technology in enhancing multimodal medical data systems within mHealth applications. A comprehensive search across six databases yielded 1,073 studies, with 60 meeting inclusion criteria.

Studies were analyzed through thematic synthesis to identify key success factors (RQ1) and comparative analysis to assess limitations in existing frameworks (RQ2). Key factors promoting mHealth adoption included ease of use, efficiency, error prevention, learnability, memorability, and user satisfaction.

Blockchain integration emerged as a promising approach to improve data security, interoperability, and user trust, particularly for older adults who engage with complex, multimodal health data. Findings from RQ2 highlighted gaps in usability models, such as the lack of age-specific guidance for multimodal interaction, error recovery, and data privacy. These results underscore the need to define a new usability framework and incorporate blockchain to meet the unique needs of older adults in mHealth applications, supporting both secure and accessible healthcare management.

Glean more at https://doi.org/10.30953/bhty.v7.357
 

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Scimago Journal Rank (SJR) H-Index : 6 
Scopus Citescore 2024:  2.4 
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2023 Statistics

Acceptance Rate:  24% 
Days to Accept:  101 
Average days to publication:  106 
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