Saheed Yusuf, Tareq Al Jaber* and Majid Bahmanzadeh

School of Computer Science, University of Hull, United Kingdom

*Corresponding Author: Tareq Al Jaber, School of Computer Science, University of Hull, United Kingdom.

Received: March 14, 2023; Published: April 06, 2023

Abstract

The health sector is one of the most important sectors in any society which also greatly influences economic growth. The adoption of technology in the health sector has contributed a lot of improvements and thus help automate some of the processes, saving time and manpower. Technological advancement in the health sector has led to the evolution of Mobile Health (mHealth) applications to ease some of the medical processes like diagnosis, education, treatment, monitoring etc. This study aims to focus on the usability of the mHealth applications based on the datasets scraped on the popular mobile application stores which are the App store (iOS) and Play store (Android) and what influences the usage of the mHealth applications. The datasets for this study were gathered through web scraping. Data cleaning, feature engineering, data visualization, data analysis and modelling were carried out on these datasets using Python programming language and its libraries. The result of this study shows that mHealth applications that are free to download have higher performance and usability than paid applications. Likewise, applications that provide in-app purchases tend to have higher performance and usability than applications that do not provide in-app purchases. Also, predictive models were trained for predicting the performance of the mHealth application and the XGBoost classifier had the best performance based on accuracy and f1-score. To increase the usability of mHealth applications, it is recommended to promote in-app purchases in mHealth applications rather than asking users to pay to download without having a feel of the service(s) rendered by the applications.

Keywords: HMHealth Applications; Data Science; Performance Evaluation; Feature Engineering; Data Analysis

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Citation

Citation: Tareq Al Jaber., et al. “Application of Data Science in Analysis of Different Usage of Mobile Health Applications". Acta Scientific Computer Sciences 5.5 (2023): 16-25.

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