IEEE 5G-IoT Summit Tangier

Title: Mobile Applications for Reproductive Health Services
Abstract:
The objective of the tutorial is to present the project NAS-USAID PEER 7-246 titled “Facilitating access to reproductive health services for refugee women in Morocco “. The objective of this project is to institute comprehensive reproductive health services dedicated to refugee women in Morocco including contraception, prenatal/obstetric and postpartum care services. The project will develop and evaluate a complete Information and Communication Technology-based solution to improve the quality of reproductive health services, which comprises a pregnancy monitoring mobile Personal Health Records (mPHR), an Electronic Health Records (EHR), a gamified contraception app, and a gamified postpartum app. In this pilot study, 50 pregnant and 20 non-pregnant refugees will use and assess the mPHR and the contraception and postpartum apps respectively while five gynecologists will use and evaluate the EHR. The primary outcome measure is twofold and lies in: 1) the potential of the proposed Information and Communication Technology based solution in improving access to reproductive health for refugee women; the potential is the compliance of the participants in terms of rating scores with the EHR, contraception and postnatal apps along with the mPHR for pregnancy monitoring; and 2) the core quality characteristics to be implemented in an ICT-based reproductive health solution to improve its usability and usefulness. The core quality characteristics will be determined by means of regression formulae associating the quality characteristics of the standards ISO 25010 and the participants’ rating scores.
Biography
Ali Idri is a Full Professor at Computer Science and Systems Analysis School (ENSIAS, University Mohammed V, Rabat, Morocco). He received his Master and Doctorate of 3rd Cycle in Computer Science from the University of Mohammed V in 1994 and 1997 respectively. He received his Ph.D. in Cognitive and Computer Sciences from the University of Quebec at Montreal in 2003. He is the head of the Software Project Management research team since 2010 and the Chair of the department Web and Mobile Engineering for the period 2014-2020. He has a long experience in dealing with the use of machine learning techniques in software engineering and medical informatics. He was the principal investigator of several leading national and international projects. He was ranked at the 3rd position of the Top-Ten researchers in the field of software effort estimation according to the study "Research Patterns and Trends in Software Effort Estimation" published in the journal Information and Software Technology (Information and Software Technology 91 (2017) 1–21). He was also ranked 2nd of the Top-Ten researchers in doing Systematic Mapping Studies in Software Engineering according to the study “Landscaping systematic mapping studies in software engineering: A tertiary study” published in the journal of Systems and Software 149 (2019) 396–436 . He is the academic responsible of ERASMUS+, KA1 with the University of Murcia (Spain) since 2011. He is the responsible of the Erasmus+, Capacity Building “Including Students with Impairments in Distance Education" (InSIDE), Erasmus+ KA2, Coordinator: University of Macedonia, Greece. He is an Associate Editor of BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, JCR 2016, IF = 1.643 (https://bmcmedinformdecismak.biomedcentral.com/). He is an expert evaluator at the CNRST (http://www.cnrst.ma/index.php/fr/) which consists of evaluating the research projects handled by this organism. He is very active in the fields of software engineering, machine learning and medical informatics and has published more that 180 papers in well recognized journals and conferences such as Information and Software Technology, Journal of Software and Systems, International Journal of Medical Informatics, Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine and Journal of Applied Soft Computing.