m-Health Application for Infection Control and Prevention Focused on Healthcare Professionals

Decisions about precautions and isolations are performed by healthcare professionals based on manuals, through tables and texts, not always available at the point of care. For this reason, the use of mobile application software to aid in decision making during health care is increasing. This article describes m-health application on standard precautions and based on transmission routes development to support the decision of healthcare workers while providing patient care. It is an applied research of technological production, where it was carried out prototyping, content database elaboration, creation, development and system evaluation. m-health application, called Isolation App, provides information on precautions and isolation, personal protective equipment suitable for each type of precaution, hand hygiene guidelines and contains national and international links related to the subject. Application was evaluated by healthcare workers experts in infection control and prevention. Results suggest the prototype may support health professionals, facilitating decision making at the point of care.