What Makes a Quality Health App-Developing a Global Research-Based Health App Quality Assessment Framework for CEN-ISO/TS 82304-2: Delphi Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The lack of an international standard for assessing and communicating health app quality and the lack of consensus about what makes a high-quality health app negatively affect the uptake of such apps. At the request of the European Commission, the international Standard Development Organizations (SDOs), European Committee for Standardization, International Organization for Standardization, and International Electrotechnical Commission have joined forces to develop a technical specification (TS) for assessing the quality and reliability of health and wellness apps.

Objective

This study aimed to create a useful, globally applicable, trustworthy, and usable framework to assess health app quality.

Methods

A 2-round Delphi technique with 83 experts from 6 contin

SUBMITTER: Hoogendoorn P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9872976 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature