Project Overview

Project Goal:

To determine the usability and utility of iamable, a web based application developed to provide access to rehabilitation strategies to patients who are receiving treatment from occupational therapists (OTs) and physiotherapists (PTs) in primary care.

The usability evaluation will occur in 3 phases.

1. Concurrent Think Aloud method, conducted in collaboration with the McMaster Digital Transformation Research Centre, with 8-10 older adults who identify as “familiar users” of technology.
2. Heuristic evaluation with ‘double’ experts (2-4 physiotherapists and occupational therapists with experience with technological innovations in practice).
3. Iamable app utilization by dyads of patients and therapists across 5 primary care sites; 26 dyads will be asked to integrate the Iamable app into ‘usual care’ to support the patient’s chronic disease self-management.

Project Outcomes include:

• An evidence-based, SM app which will be utilized by people with chronic conditions and by members of interdisciplinary health care teams.
• Increased accessibility, availability and affordability of rehabilitation strategies to optimize function and participation of people with chronic disease.