Health Portals for Specific Populations: A Design for Pregnant Women

The technologies and communication advances, contributed to new tools development who allows patient to have an active role in their own health. In the light of paradigms changes and information needs about health, the patient self-manage their care. This line of care focuses in patient, specific portals come up to people with particular requirements like pregnant womens. Thinking in a portal design to this sector of the population, in September 2016 a survey was made to users with the objective to knowing and understanding information needs at the moment to use a pregnant's app . Also, prototypes of the portal's features was designed to try and validate with users, using the human-centered design methodology. Investigations have made possible the identification of this population's needs and develop a tool who try to satisfy, providing timely information for each part of pregnancy and allowing the patients to make a physical check and to follow up pregnancy seeking advices from our obstetricians.