(IJACSA) International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications, Vol. 9, No. 11, 2018 543 | Page www.ijacsa.thesai.org Development of Mobile Health Application for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Vitri Tundjungsari 1 , Heri Yugaswara 3 , Adhika Trisna Dwi Putra 4 Faculty of Information Technology YARSI University Jl. Letjen Suprapto, Jakarta, Indonesia Abdul Salam M Sofro 2 Faculty of Medicine YARSI University Jl. Letjen Suprapto, Jakarta, Indonesia Abstract—Cardiovascular diseases are one of major cause of death in the world, as well as in Indonesia. In spite of that fact, cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) could be prevented with healthy behavior and lifestyle, such as: regular health check-up, healthy eating and drinking lifestyle, stress management, sleeping management, regular physical activities. In this paper, we develop mobile health application as a tool to record daily behavior and lifestyle. Mobile health is chosen because nowadays mobile devices are the most popular communication used among people. Thus, we believe that mobile Health (mHealth) is a promising tool to promote healthy lifestyle and behavior. The method we used for developing the application is called as Human-centered design (HCD). The application is evaluated iteratively from the first prototype (low-fidelity prototype) to the final prototype (high-fidelity prototype). Based on the feedback using User Experience Questionnaire (UEQ) shows that the application has above average scores for all of the components, i.e.: attractiveness, clarity, efficiency, accuracy and dependability, stimulation, and novelty. The best score is for Stimulation (Excellent), while the worst score is accuracy and dependability (above average). This shows that mHealth is a potential tool to stimulate users for having healthy lifestyle, however it still required further validation of use from health experts to ensure the accuracy’s result of the application. Keywords—Mobile health; cardiovascular; disease; human- centered design; standard; user-centered design I. INTRODUCTION Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are one of chronic diseases which cause highest mortality in the world (around 31% people died from CVDs which 85% of it died due to heart attack and stroke) [1]. WHO sheet fact [1] also mentions that over three quarters of CVD deaths are occurred in low and middle-income countries, including Indonesia. According to Indonesian basic health research report [2], cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death in Indonesia (31%), which top two including hypertension and stroke. WHO estimates that the number will increase until 2030, which estimated 23.6 million people will die from heart and blood vessel disease [1]. Cardiovascular diseases defined as a group of disorders of the heart and blood vessels, which include [1]:  Coronary heart disease: disease caused by the blood vessels to provide blood for the heart muscle  Cerebrovascular disease: disease caused by the blood vessels to provide blood for the brain  Peripheral arterial disease: disease caused by the blood vessels to distribute blood supply in the arms and legs  Rheumatic heart disease: disease caused by damage to the heart muscle and heart valves from streptococcal bacteria  Congenital heart disease: disease caused by malformations of heart structure at birth  Deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism: disease caused by blood clots in the leg veins that able to dislocate and travel to the heart and lungs Cardiovascular diseases can be prevented by having healthy behaviour and life style, such as: no smoking, avoid obesity, increase physical activities. Therefore it is important to foster such initiatives through mobile health (mHealth) application. Mobile application is a very promising tool to promote sustained and successful healthy behavioural lifestyle [3]. MHealth is also efficient and affordable tool to support and deliver information and education among people since almost individual in this world are having mobile communication, such as: smartphone and tablet [4, 5]. Based on the background above, we develop a mobile application as a tool to reduce and prevent cardiovascular risk by promoting healthy life style through mobile healthcare application. We believe that this research can provide an alternate tool to decrease cardiovascular disease prevalence in Indonesia, as well as to prevent it. This paper consists of five main sections, i.e.: (1) introduction, (2) research related to mobile health application for CVDs management, (3) human-centered design method, (4) results and discussion, and (5) conclusion. II. MOBILE HEALTH APPLICATION FOR CARDIOVASCULAR WHO has defined mobile health (mHealth) technology as a medical and public health practice supported by mobile devices, such as mobile phones, patient monitoring devices, personal digital assistants, and other wireless devices [6]. MHealth is using mobile technology to support health projects