  We describe an innovative framework for prescription of personalised health
apps by integrating Personal Health Records (PHR) with disease-specific mobile
applications for managing medical conditions and the communication with
clinical professionals. The prescribed apps record multiple variables including
medical history enriched with innovative features such as integration with
medical monitoring devices and wellbeing trackers to provide patients and
clinicians with a personalised support on disease management. Our framework is
based on an existing PHR ecosystem called TreC, uniquely positioned between
healthcare provider and the patients, which is being used by over 70.000
patients in Trentino region in Northern Italy. We also describe three important
aspects of health app prescription and how medical information is automatically
encoded through the TreC framework and is prescribed as a personalised app,
ready to be installed in the patients' smartphone.
