Mathews Simon C, McShea Michael J, Hanley Casey L, Ravitz Alan, Labrique Alain B, Cohen Adam B
Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, 750 E Pratt St, 15th Floor, Baltimore, MD 21202 USA.
Johns Hopkins Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, 1800 Orleans St, Baltimore, MD 21287 USA.
NPJ Digit Med. 2019 May 13;2:38. doi: 10.1038/s41746-019-0111-3. eCollection 2019.
Digital health solutions continue to grow in both number and capabilities. Despite these advances, the confidence of the various stakeholders - from patients and clinicians to payers, industry and regulators - in medicine remains quite low. As a result, there is a need for objective, transparent, and standards-based evaluation of digital health products that can bring greater clarity to the digital health marketplace. We believe an approach that is guided by end-user requirements and formal assessment across technical, clinical, usability, and cost domains is one possible solution. For digital health solutions to have greater impact, quality and value must be easier to distinguish. To that end, we review the existing landscape and gaps, highlight the evolving responses and approaches, and detail one pragmatic framework that addresses the current limitations in the marketplace with a path toward implementation.
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