Holl Felix, Swoboda Walter
Neu-Ulm University of Applied Sciences, Neu-Ulm, Germany.
Stud Health Technol Inform. 2018;251:285-288.
Important requirements for mHealth, the availability of devices and network connectivity have dramatically improved in the past years globally. mHealth applications are being developed at a rapid pace. But a thorough impact assessment is not routinely performed. We performed a scoping review to compile an overview of evaluation methods used to assess mHealth applications. Preliminary results are reported here, and a full scoping review is in preparation. Qualitative measurement of user experience is common. A number of studies measured the impact of the mHealth intervention on clinical outcomes. Few measured usability and end-user experience. Assessment of the impact on treatment process was rare and evaluations of cost and cost-effectiveness analyses are rarely ever done. An evaluation framework for mHealth interventions that includes disease-appropriate clinical outcome measures, use experience measure but also an economic component in form of cost comparison of the intervention with the standard of care should be developed.
过去几年，全球范围内移动医疗的重要要求、设备可用性和网络连接性都有了显著改善。移动医疗应用正在迅速发展。但目前尚未定期进行全面的影响评估。我们进行了一项范围界定审查，以汇编用于评估移动医疗应用的评估方法概述。本文报告了初步结果，完整的范围界定审查正在准备中。对用户体验进行定性测量很常见。一些研究测量了移动医疗干预对临床结果的影响。很少有研究测量可用性和终端用户体验。对治疗过程影响的评估很少见，成本和成本效益分析的评估也几乎从未进行过。应该制定一个移动医疗干预评估框架，该框架应包括针对疾病的临床结果测量、使用体验测量，以及以干预与标准治疗成本比较形式的经济组成部分。
