Ten Years of eHealth Discussions on Stack Overflow

Pedro A. Santos Neto, Evilasio Costa Junior, Rossana M. C. Andrade, Ismayle S. Santos, Pedro Almir M. Oliveira

2022

Abstract

Over the past decade, we have seen growth in the usage of technologies in health. However, few papers are addressing the perspective reported by practitioners during the development of healthcare solutions. This perspective is relevant to identifying the most used strategies in this area and what challenges persist. Thus, this work analyzed eHealth discussions from Stack Overflow (SO) to understand the eHealth developers’ behavior. Using a KDD-based process, we got and processed 6,082 eHealth questions. The most discussed topics include manipulating medical images, electronic health records with the HL7 standard, and frameworks to support mobile health (mHealth) development. Concerning the challenges faced by these developers, there is a lack of understanding about the DICOM and HL7 standards, the absence of data repositories for testing, and the monitoring of health data in the background using mobile and wearable devices. Our results also indicate that discussions have grown mainly on mHealth, primarily due to monitoring health data through wearables.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Oliveira P., Costa Junior E., Andrade R., Santos I. and Neto P. (2022). Ten Years of eHealth Discussions on Stack Overflow. In Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2022) - Volume 5: HEALTHINF; ISBN 978-989-758-552-4, SciTePress, pages 45-56. DOI: 10.5220/0010801000003123

in Bibtex Style

@conference{healthinf22,
author={Pedro A. Santos Oliveira and Evilasio Costa Junior and Rossana M. C. Andrade and Ismayle S. Santos and Pedro Almir M. Neto},
title={Ten Years of eHealth Discussions on Stack Overflow},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2022) - Volume 5: HEALTHINF},
year={2022},
pages={45-56},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010801000003123},
isbn={978-989-758-552-4},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2022) - Volume 5: HEALTHINF
TI - Ten Years of eHealth Discussions on Stack Overflow
SN - 978-989-758-552-4
AU - Oliveira P.
AU - Costa Junior E.
AU - Andrade R.
AU - Santos I.
AU - Neto P.
PY - 2022
SP - 45
EP - 56
DO - 10.5220/0010801000003123
PB - SciTePress