Digital health: a path to validation
By Simon C. Mathews, Michael J. McShea, Casey L. Hanley, Alan D. Ravitz, Alain B. Labrique, Adam B. Cohen. npj Digital Medicine, 2019
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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.
Subfields: Applied Psychology, General Health Professions, Health Information Management
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- Digital technology, tele-medicine and artificial intelligence in ophthalmology: A global perspective (2020, background): “One proposed framework suggests evaluation based on technical and clinical considerations, usability, and cost (Mathews et al., 2019).”
- The Recent Progress and Applications of Digital Technologies in Healthcare: A Review (2020, background): “In recent decades, health digital technologies were widely studied and applied in biomedicine, research, and medical education [137].”