Medical Mobile App Classification Using the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence Evidence Standards Framework for Digital Health Technologies: Interrater Reliability Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Clinical governance of medical mobile apps is challenging, and there is currently no standard method for assessing the quality of such apps. In 2018, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) developed a framework for assessing the required level of evidence for digital health technologies (DHTs), as determined by their clinical function. The framework can potentially be used to assess mobile apps, which are a subset of DHTs. To be used reliably in this context, the framework must allow unambiguous classification of an app's clinical function.

Objective

The objective of this study was to determine whether mobile health apps could be reliably classified using the NICE evidence standards framework for DHTs.

Methods

We manually extracted app

SUBMITTER: Nwe K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7305556 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature