MHealth Assessment: Conceptualization of a Global Framework.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The mass availability and use of mobile health (mHealth) technologies offers the potential for these technologies to support or substitute medical advice. However, it is worrisome that most assessment initiatives are still not able to successfully evaluate all aspects of mHealth solutions. As a result, multiple strategies to assess mHealth solutions are being proposed by medical regulatory bodies and similar organizations.

Objective

We aim to offer a collective description of a universally applicable description of mHealth assessment initiatives, given their current and, as we see it, potential impact. In doing so, we recommend a common foundation for the development or update of assessment initiatives by addressing the multistakeholder issues that mHealth technol

SUBMITTER: Bradway M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5434253 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature