Actionable health app evaluation: translating expert frameworks into objective metrics.

ABSTRACT: As use and availability of mobile health apps have increased, so too has the need for a thorough, accessible framework for app evaluation. The American Psychiatric Association's app evaluation model has emerged as a way to critically assess an app by considering accessibility, privacy and security, clinical foundation, engagement, and interoperability; however, there is no centralized database where users can view how various health apps perform when assessed via the APA model. In this perspective, we propose and outline our effort to translate the APA's model for the evaluation of health apps into a set of objective metrics that can be published online, making the framework actionable and accessible to a broad audience. The questions from the APA model were operationalized into 105 object

SUBMITTER: Lagan S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7393366 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature