The „MENTA” concept
Creating a new and practical tool as an everyday solution of health-related
problems
Richárd Faller
Service areas of the new form of care
 Primary care
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Prevention
Health promotion
Staying healthy
Automatic and continuous health monitoring
 Public health
 Improving health consciousness
 Secondary care
 Supplement of clinical treatments
 Patient information
 Self care
 Telemedicine
 Sharing medical information
Criteria
 Data management
 Equal opportunities, platform
 Ergonomics, usability
 Motivation
 Self-learning
 Time and cost effective
 Developing ecosystem (with primary
care developments)
 Free availability
 Achieving population, expand target
audience
Health-related use of the Internet in
Hungary
Tamás Tóth
International perspective
Norway
Denmark
2001
2002
Germany
Greece
Portugal
80
70
60
(%)
50
40
30
20
10
0
2000
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
Source: Per Egil Kummervold, Rolf Wynn: Health Information Accessed on the Internet: The Development in 5 European
Countries, International Journal of Telemedicine and Applications, Volume 2012
Goals and methodology
Research
Distribution of
responders
 Purpose
 Total: 686 persons
 Survey of health-related
use habits of the Internet
and smartphones by the
Hungarian population
 Methodology
 Online questionnaire
 Personal questionnaire (at
Budapest and the
countryside)
 By gender
 Female: 63%
 Male: 37%
 By age
 18-29 years: 42%
 30-49 years: 34%
 Over 50 years: 22%
 By place of resident
 Budapest: 55%
 Countryside: 45%
Group of questions
 Demographic data
 Penetration of ICT devices
 Distribution of smartphone platforms
 Typical search for medical topics
 Subjective evaluation of online information
 Usage of the medical applications
Results
Health information on the Internet
Popular health topics
How useful was it?
90%
9%
80%
30%
18%
70%
60%
50%
43%
40%
30%
Significantly
20%
Moderately
Sightly
Not at all
How misleading was it?
10%
0%
3%
14%
13%
70%
18-29 years
30-49 years
over 50 years
Significantly
Moderately
Sightly
Not at all
Penetration of mobile devices and
platforms
Number of smartphones in
Hungary*
Platforms
4,000,000
3%
3,500,000
11%
3,000,000
2,500,000
2,000,000
1,500,000
1,000,000
23%
500,000
63%
0
Android
*Source: Napidroid.hu, NRC-Ariosz
iOS
Windows
Other
Penetration of health-related mobile
applications*
Medications
Health promotion
Self-monitoring
0%
5%
10%
15%
*proportion of smartphone and / or tablet holders
20%
25%
30%
35%
40%
45%
Summary
 Hungarian population – similarly to the international
trends – significantly use the Internet to search for
health-related information
 Nearly 80% of the responders choose one of the health topic
 Popular health topics: diseases, health professionals,
health promotion
 91% of the responders find useful information, but 30%
of it was misleading
 48% of the responders use at least one health-related
mobile applications (most of them: health promotion)
 86% of the devices use Android or iOS platforms
Functions of MENTA
István Kalmár
Function map of MENTA
Personal Health Record
 My Profile
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User data
History of health data
Emergency data
Medications data
 Health Diaries
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Blood Pressure Diary
Blood Glucose Diary
Weight Diary
Nutrition Diary
Fitness Diary
Respiratory Diary
 Health Plans
Services
Information Center –
Knowledge Base
 Disease Guide
 Interactive symptom
checker
 Drugs and medication A-Z
 Drug database
 Drug finder
 Drug information
 Informative maps and
descriptions
 Screening campaigns and
patients’ rights
 External news feeds
Find A Provider
 Find an hospitals and
special clinics
 Find a pharmacy
 Find a health
professional
 Search on interactive
maps
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By name or Prof. ID
By address
By profession
By type of care
Medical e-Log and Notifying
Therapy Application
Sándor Békási MD
Previous mHealth Research Conclusions
 Hungarian population uses the
Internet widely to search for
health-related information
 Most popular search
expressions are about diseases,
health professionals and health
promotion
 >90% find useful information,
but more than 30% is
misleading
 48% use at least one healthrelated mobile app
21st Century Standards
 Users, not patients
 Establishment of a new mHealth
ecosystem
 Prevention-focused
 Improving health consciousness and
self-awareness
 High level data security
 Excellent UX design
 Self-learning system
 Practical approach
 Time and cost effectiveness
 Free availability
My Personal Health Records
 In-app patient register on medical history, current chronic
diseases and treatments
 PHR and EHR on the same interface after user identification
 Health diaries monitoring weight, nutrition, fitness, blood
pressure, blood glucose and respiratory function
 GP consulting from home through the app
My Health Plans
 Modules to achieve the main health goals step by step
 Input data based on health diaries
 Practical advice and continuous feedback
 Interactive communication
 Motivation through gamification
Information Hub and Service Center
 Relevant patient information (Disease guide, Symptom
checker, Drug database)
 Screening campaigns and patients’ rights
 Personalized news feeds
 Search for health care providers or professionals
Telemedicine and 3rd party apps
 Telemedicine modules for connectible devices
 Direct link to specialists
 Application Programming Interface (API) for 3rd party developers