Authors:
Pedro A. Santos Oliveira
1
;
Evilasio Costa Junior
1
;
Rossana M. C. Andrade
1
;
Ismayle S. Santos
1
and
Pedro Almir M. Neto
2
Affiliations:
1
Group of Computer Networks, Software Engineering and Systems (GREat), Federal University of Ceará, Ceará, Brazil
;
2
Laboratory of Software Optimization and Testing (LOST), Federal University of Piauí, Piauí, Brazil
Keyword(s):
eHealth Trends, Stack Overflow, Mining Software Repositories, Topic Modeling.
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.
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