{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,3,6]],"date-time":"2026-03-06T11:56:57Z","timestamp":1772798217815,"version":"3.50.1"},"reference-count":22,"publisher":"Springer Science and Business Media LLC","issue":"3","license":[{"start":{"date-parts":[[2023,6,28]],"date-time":"2023-06-28T00:00:00Z","timestamp":1687910400000},"content-version":"tdm","delay-in-days":0,"URL":"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0"},{"start":{"date-parts":[[2023,6,28]],"date-time":"2023-06-28T00:00:00Z","timestamp":1687910400000},"content-version":"vor","delay-in-days":0,"URL":"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0"}],"funder":[{"DOI":"10.13039\/501100005721","name":"Universit\u00e4t Bielefeld","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","id":[{"id":"10.13039\/501100005721","id-type":"DOI","asserted-by":"crossref"}]}],"content-domain":{"domain":["link.springer.com"],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":["Herzschr Elektrophys"],"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2023,9]]},"abstract":"<jats:title>Abstract<\/jats:title><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Background<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>Smartphone apps are increasingly utilised by patients and physicians for medical purposes. Thus, numerous applications are provided on the App Store platforms.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Objectives<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>The aim of the study was to establish a\u00a0novel, expanded approach of a\u00a0semiautomated retrospective App Store analysis (SARASA) to identify and characterise health apps in the context of cardiac arrhythmias.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Materials and methods<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>An automated total read-out of the \u201cMedical\u201d category of Apple\u2019s German App Store was performed in December 2022 by analysing the developer-provided descriptions and other metadata using a\u00a0semiautomated multilevel approach. Search terms were defined, based on which the textual information of the total extraction results was automatically filtered.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>A\u00a0total of 435 of 31,564 apps were identified in the context of cardiac arrhythmias. Of those, 81.4% were found to deal with education, decision support, or disease management, and 26.2% (additionally) provided the opportunity to derive information on heart rhythm. The apps were intended for healthcare professionals in 55.9%, students in 17.5%, and\/or patients in 15.9%. In 31.5%, the target population was not specified in the description texts. In all, 108 apps (24.8%) provided a\u00a0telemedicine treatment approach; 83.7% of the description texts did not reveal any information on medical product status; 8.3% of the apps indicated that they have and 8.0% that they do not have medical product status.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>Through the supplemented SARASA method, health apps in the context of cardiac arrhythmias could be identified and assigned to the target categories. Clinicians and patients have a\u00a0wide choice of apps, although the app description texts do not provide sufficient information about the intended use and quality.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1007\/s00399-023-00947-2","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,6,28]],"date-time":"2023-06-28T19:01:56Z","timestamp":1687978916000},"page":"218-225","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Evaluation of a\u00a0semiautomated App Store analysis for the identification of health apps for cardiac arrhythmias","Evaluation einer halbautomatischen App-Store-Analyse zur Identifikation von Gesundheits-Apps f\u00fcr Herzrhythmusst\u00f6rungen"],"prefix":"10.1007","volume":"34","author":[{"given":"Dennis","family":"Lawin","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ute","family":"von Jan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Evgenii","family":"Pustozerov","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Thorsten","family":"Lawrenz","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Christoph","family":"Stellbrink","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Urs-Vito","family":"Albrecht","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,6,28]]},"reference":[{"key":"947_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.24355\/dbbs.084-201210110913-53","volume-title":"Chancen und Risiken von Gesundheits-Apps (CHARISMHA)","author":"U-V Albrecht","year":"2016","unstructured":"Albrecht\u00a0U\u2011V, Aumann\u00a0I, Breil\u00a0B, Amelung\u00a0V (2016) Chancen und Risiken von Gesundheits-Apps (CHARISMHA) https:\/\/doi.org\/10.24355\/dbbs.084-201210110913-53"},{"key":"947_CR2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"e11753","DOI":"10.2196\/11753","volume":"6","author":"U-V Albrecht","year":"2018","unstructured":"Albrecht\u00a0U\u2011V, Hasenfu\u00df\u00a0G, von Jan\u00a0U (2018) Description of cardiological Apps from the German app store: semiautomated retrospective app store analysis. JMIR Mhealth Uhealth 6:e11753. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.2196\/11753","journal-title":"JMIR Mhealth Uhealth"},{"key":"947_CR3","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"e10394","DOI":"10.2196\/10394","volume":"6","author":"U-V Albrecht","year":"2018","unstructured":"Albrecht\u00a0U\u2011V, Hillebrand\u00a0U, von Jan\u00a0U (2018) Relevance of trust marks and CE labels in German-language store descriptions of health Apps: analysis. JMIR Mhealth Uhealth 6:e10394. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.2196\/10394","journal-title":"JMIR Mhealth Uhealth"},{"key":"947_CR4","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"585","DOI":"10.1145\/2695664.2695997","volume-title":"Proceedings of the 30th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing","author":"G Berardi","year":"2015","unstructured":"Berardi\u00a0G, Esuli\u00a0A, Fagni\u00a0T, Sebastiani\u00a0F (2015) Multi-store metadata-based supervised mobile app classification. In: Proceedings of the 30th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, pp 585\u2013588"},{"key":"947_CR5","volume-title":"AppQ \u2013 G\u00fctekriterien-Kernset f\u00fcr mehr Qualit\u00e4tstransparenz bei digitalen Gesundheitsanwendungen","author":"G Bertelsmannstiftung","year":"2019","unstructured":"Bertelsmannstiftung\u00a0G (2019) AppQ \u2013 G\u00fctekriterien-Kernset f\u00fcr mehr Qualit\u00e4tstransparenz bei digitalen Gesundheitsanwendungen"},{"key":"947_CR6","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"1051","DOI":"10.1016\/j.amepre.2016.07.009","volume":"51","author":"QH Grundy","year":"2016","unstructured":"Grundy\u00a0QH, Wang\u00a0Z, Bero\u00a0LA (2016) Challenges in assessing mobile health app quality: a systematic review of prevalent and innovative methods. Am J Prev Med 51:1051\u20131059. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.amepre.2016.07.009","journal-title":"Am J Prev Med"},{"key":"947_CR7","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"317","DOI":"10.1007\/s00108-019-0594-7","volume":"60","author":"G Hasenfu\u00df","year":"2019","unstructured":"Hasenfu\u00df\u00a0G, Vogelmeier\u00a0CF (2019) Digitale Medizin. Internist 60:317\u2013318. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s00108-019-0594-7","journal-title":"Internist"},{"key":"947_CR8","unstructured":"Health C for D and R (2021) Products and medical procedures. In: FDA. https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/medical-devices\/products-and-medical-procedures. Accessed 27 Feb 2023"},{"key":"947_CR9","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1007\/s00392-021-01941-9","author":"ANL Hermans","year":"2021","unstructured":"Hermans\u00a0ANL, Gawalko\u00a0M, Dohmen\u00a0L, van der Velden\u00a0RMJ, Betz\u00a0K, Duncker\u00a0D, Verhaert\u00a0DVM, Heidbuchel\u00a0H, Svennberg\u00a0E, Neubeck\u00a0L, Eckstein\u00a0J, Lane\u00a0DA, Lip\u00a0GYH, Crijns\u00a0HJGM, Sanders\u00a0P, Hendriks\u00a0JM, Pluymaekers\u00a0NAHA, Linz\u00a0D (2021) Mobile health solutions for atrial fibrillation detection and management: a\u00a0systematic review. Clin Res Cardiol. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s00392-021-01941-9","journal-title":"Clin Res Cardiol"},{"key":"947_CR10","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"373","DOI":"10.1093\/eurheartj\/ehaa612","volume":"42","author":"G Hindricks","year":"2021","unstructured":"Hindricks\u00a0G, Potpara\u00a0T, Dagres\u00a0N, Arbelo\u00a0E, Bax\u00a0JJ, Blomstr\u00f6m-Lundqvist\u00a0C, Boriani\u00a0G, Castella\u00a0M, Dan\u00a0G\u2011A, Dilaveris\u00a0PE, Fauchier\u00a0L, Filippatos\u00a0G, Kalman\u00a0JM, La Meir\u00a0M, Lane\u00a0DA, Lebeau\u00a0J\u2011P, Lettino\u00a0M, Lip\u00a0GYH, Pinto\u00a0FJ, Thomas\u00a0GN, Valgimigli\u00a0M, Van Gelder\u00a0IC, Van Putte\u00a0BP, Watkins\u00a0CL, ESC Scientific Document Group (2021) 2020 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of atrial fibrillation. Eur Heart\u00a0J 42:373\u2013498. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/eurheartj\/ehaa612","journal-title":"Eur Heart J"},{"key":"947_CR11","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"21","DOI":"10.1109\/RE.2017.71","volume-title":"2017 IEEE 25th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE)","author":"T Johann","year":"2017","unstructured":"Johann\u00a0T, Stanik\u00a0C, Alizadeh\u00a0BAM, Maalej\u00a0W (2017) SAFE: a simple approach for feature extraction from app descriptions and app reviews. In: 2017 IEEE 25th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE), pp\u00a021\u201330"},{"key":"947_CR12","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"1032","DOI":"10.1002\/clc.23404","volume":"43","author":"M Manninger","year":"2020","unstructured":"Manninger\u00a0M, Kosiuk\u00a0J, Zweiker\u00a0D, Njeim\u00a0M, Antolic\u00a0B, Kircanski\u00a0B, Larsen\u00a0JM, Svennberg\u00a0E, Vanduynhoven\u00a0P, Duncker\u00a0D (2020) Role of wearable rhythm recordings in clinical decision making\u2014The wEHRAbles project. Clin Cardiol 43:1032\u20131039. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/clc.23404","journal-title":"Clin Cardiol"},{"key":"947_CR13","volume-title":"cld2: Google\u2019s compact language detector 2","author":"DS Ooms","year":"2022","unstructured":"Ooms\u00a0DS (2022) cld2: Google\u2019s compact language detector 2"},{"key":"947_CR14","unstructured":"Participation E Regulation (EU) 2017\/745 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 April 2017on medical devices, amending Directive 2001\/83\/EC, Regulation (EC) No 178\/2002 and Regulation (EC) No 1223\/2009 and repealing Council Directives 90\/385\/EEC and 93\/42\/EEC. In: https:\/\/webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk\/eu-exit\/https:\/\/eur-lex.europa.eu\/legal-content\/EN\/TXT\/?uri=CELEX:02017R0745-20200424. Accessed 4 Mar 2023"},{"key":"947_CR15","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"14952","DOI":"10.3390\/ijerph192214952","volume":"19","author":"J Scherer","year":"2022","unstructured":"Scherer\u00a0J, Youssef\u00a0Y, Dittrich\u00a0F, Albrecht\u00a0U\u2011V, Tsitsilonis\u00a0S, Jung\u00a0J, Pf\u00f6rringer\u00a0D, Landgraeber\u00a0S, Beck\u00a0S, Back\u00a0DA (2022) Proposal of a\u00a0new rating concept for digital health applications in orthopedics and traumatology. Int J Environ Res Public Health 19:14952. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/ijerph192214952","journal-title":"Int J Environ Res Public Health"},{"key":"947_CR16","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"e27","DOI":"10.2196\/mhealth.3422","volume":"3","author":"SR Stoyanov","year":"2015","unstructured":"Stoyanov\u00a0SR, Hides\u00a0L, Kavanagh\u00a0DJ, Zelenko\u00a0O, Tjondronegoro\u00a0D, Mani\u00a0M (2015) Mobile app rating scale: a\u00a0new tool for assessing the quality of health mobile apps. JMIR Mhealth Uhealth 3:e27. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.2196\/mhealth.3422","journal-title":"JMIR Mhealth Uhealth"},{"key":"947_CR17","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1093\/europace\/euac038","author":"E Svennberg","year":"2022","unstructured":"Svennberg\u00a0E, Tjong\u00a0F, Goette\u00a0A, Akoum\u00a0N, Di Biaise\u00a0L, Bordachar\u00a0P, Boriani\u00a0G, Burri\u00a0H, Conte\u00a0G, Deharo\u00a0J\u2011C, Deneke\u00a0T, Drossart\u00a0I, Duncker\u00a0D, Han\u00a0JK, Heidbuchel\u00a0H, Jais\u00a0P, de Oliviera Figueiredo\u00a0MJ, Linz\u00a0D, Lip\u00a0GYH, Malaczynska-Rajpold\u00a0K, M\u00e1rquez\u00a0M, Ploem\u00a0C, Soejima\u00a0K, Stiles\u00a0MK, Wierda\u00a0E, Vernooy\u00a0K, Leclercq\u00a0C, Meyer\u00a0C, Pisani\u00a0C, Pak\u00a0H\u2011N, Gupta\u00a0D, P\u00fcrerfellner\u00a0H, Crijns\u00a0HJGM, Chavez\u00a0EA, Willems\u00a0S, Waldmann\u00a0V, Dekker\u00a0L, Wan\u00a0E, Kavoor\u00a0P, Turagam\u00a0MK, Sinner\u00a0M (2022) How to use digital devices to detect and manage arrhythmias: an EHRA practical guide. Europace. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/europace\/euac038","journal-title":"Europace"},{"key":"947_CR18","first-page":"10","volume":"19","author":"DT Walsworth","year":"2012","unstructured":"Walsworth\u00a0DT (2012) Medical Apps: making your mobile device a\u00a0medical device. Fam Pract Manag 19:10\u201313","journal-title":"Fam Pract Manag"},{"key":"947_CR19","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"1550","DOI":"10.1109\/TMC.2013.113","volume":"13","author":"H Zhu","year":"2014","unstructured":"Zhu\u00a0H, Chen\u00a0E, Xiong\u00a0H, Cao\u00a0H, Tian\u00a0J (2014) Mobile app classification with enriched contextual information. IEEE Trans Mob Comput 13:1550\u20131563. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1109\/TMC.2013.113","journal-title":"IEEE Trans Mob Comput"},{"key":"947_CR20","unstructured":"Cambridge English dictionary: meanings & definitions. https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/dictionary\/english\/. Accessed 6 Feb 2023"},{"key":"947_CR21","unstructured":"iTunes search API: overview. https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/library\/archive\/documentation\/AudioVideo\/Conceptual\/iTuneSearchAPI\/index.html#\/\/apple_ref\/doc\/uid\/TP40017632-CH3-SW1. Accessed 21 June 2022"},{"key":"947_CR22","unstructured":"R: regular expressions as used in R. https:\/\/stat.ethz.ch\/R-manual\/R-devel\/library\/base\/html\/regex.html. Accessed 21 June 2022"}],"container-title":["Herzschrittmachertherapie + Elektrophysiologie"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/content\/pdf\/10.1007\/s00399-023-00947-2.pdf","content-type":"application\/pdf","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s00399-023-00947-2\/fulltext.html","content-type":"text\/html","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/content\/pdf\/10.1007\/s00399-023-00947-2.pdf","content-type":"application\/pdf","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2023,8,28]],"date-time":"2023-08-28T15:07:52Z","timestamp":1693235272000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/10.1007\/s00399-023-00947-2"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2023,6,28]]},"references-count":22,"journal-issue":{"issue":"3","published-print":{"date-parts":[[2023,9]]}},"alternative-id":["947"],"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s00399-023-00947-2","relation":{},"ISSN":["0938-7412","1435-1544"],"issn-type":[{"value":"0938-7412","type":"print"},{"value":"1435-1544","type":"electronic"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2023,6,28]]},"assertion":[{"value":"15 May 2023","order":1,"name":"received","label":"Received","group":{"name":"ArticleHistory","label":"Article History"}},{"value":"17 May 2023","order":2,"name":"accepted","label":"Accepted","group":{"name":"ArticleHistory","label":"Article History"}},{"value":"28 June 2023","order":3,"name":"first_online","label":"First Online","group":{"name":"ArticleHistory","label":"Article History"}},{"order":1,"name":"Ethics","group":{"name":"EthicsHeading","label":"Declarations"}},{"value":"D.\u00a0Lawin received research funding from Qompium Inc., Hasselt, Belgium, for another study unrelated to this manuscript. U.\u00a0von Jan, E.\u00a0Pustozerov, T.\u00a0Lawrenz, C.\u00a0Stellbrink and U.-V.\u00a0Albrecht declare that they have no competing interests.","order":2,"name":"Ethics","group":{"name":"EthicsHeading","label":"Conflict of interest"}},{"value":"For this article no studies with human participants or animals were performed by any of the authors. All studies mentioned were in accordance with the ethical standards indicated in each case.","order":3,"name":"Ethics","group":{"name":"EthicsHeading","label":"Conflict of interest"}}]}}