Mobile Application for Remote Monitoring of Vital Signs and Physical Activity of Pregnant Women in Peru

Certain investigations have shown that, during the pregnancy period, pregnant women are exposed to various pathologies such as perinatal depression, gestational hypertension and excessive gestational weight gain, which lead to a notable mortality rate. This paper presents GEST, a mobile application which supports the control of prenatal health through the collection of data such as vital signs and physical activity that the mHealth Google Fit technology allows to collect. With the help of notifications, chat conversations, educative content (psychoprophylaxis guides) and dynamic graphics, GEST allows both pregnant women to achieve a healthier pregnancy and healthcare professionals to respond to vital alarm signs that represent a considerable risk for pregnant women, reducing the need for medical appointments. Without depending on a health center, this system is meant for private use, since it allows data access between the healthcare professional and her pregnant patient through a link code. As a result of the experiment, it was shown that the level of satisfaction of the GEST users was high due to the ease of use and the high precision of the results.