Multinational landscape of health app policy: toward regulatory consensus on digital health

JA Diao, KP Venkatesh, MM Raza, JC Kvedar - NPJ Digital Medicine, 2022 - nature.com
Due to its enormous capacity for benefit, harm, and cost, health care is among the most
tightly regulated industries in the world. But with the rise of smartphones, an explosion of …

[HTML][HTML] Patient-managed Digital Medical Devices: Do We Need Further Regulation?

P Minghetti, UM Musazzi, S Manellari, V Pagella… - Informatics in Medicine …, 2024 - Elsevier
In the heterogenous category of digital healthcare technologies, software with a medical
purpose-ie therapy, diagnosis, prevention of a disease or monitoring of adherence to …

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

P Hoogendoorn, A Versluis, S van Kampen… - JMIR Formative …, 2023 - formative.jmir.org
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 …

Development and validation of a point‐of‐care nursing mobile tool to guide the diagnosis of malnutrition in hospitalized adult patients: a multicenter, prospective …

N Lin, X Zhou, W Chen, C He, X Wang, Y Wei… - MedComm, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Malnutrition is a prevalent and severe issue in hospitalized patients with chronic diseases.
However, malnutrition screening is often overlooked or inaccurate due to lack of awareness …

Tracing Digital Therapeutics Research Across Medical Specialties: Evidence from ClinicalTrials. gov

L Masanneck, AD Stern - Clinical Pharmacology & …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Digital therapeutics (DTx), evidence‐based software interventions for preventing, managing,
or treating medical disorders, have rapidly evolved with healthcare's shift toward online …

[HTML][HTML] Digital outpatient health solutions as a vehicle to improve healthcare sustainability—a United Kingdom focused policy and practice perspective

MRD Brown, M Knight, CJ Peters, S Maleki… - Frontiers in Digital …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
In the midst of a global climate emergency and with health care systems across the world
facing extreme pressure, interest in digital approaches as a potential part-solution to these …

Apps don't work for patients who don't use them: Towards frameworks for digital therapeutics adherence

DG Schwartz, S Spitzer, M Khalemsky… - Health Policy and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Scientific abstract Objectives Digital therapeutics such as mobile health applications
(mHealth apps) are becoming part of patients' treatment programs. Ensuring patients …

[HTML][HTML] Nurses' Use of mHealth Apps for Chronic Conditions: Cross-Sectional Survey

W Shiyab, K Rolls, C Ferguson, E Halcomb - JMIR nursing, 2024 - nursing.jmir.org
Background: Mobile health (mHealth) is increasingly used to support public health practice,
as it has positive benefits such as enhancing self-efficacy and facilitating chronic disease …

[HTML][HTML] Mental Health Professionals' Attitudes Toward Digital Mental Health Apps and Implications for Adoption in Portugal: Mixed Methods Study

D Nogueira-Leite, JM Diniz… - JMIR Human …, 2023 - humanfactors.jmir.org
Background Digital health apps are among the most visible facets of the ongoing digital
transition in health care, with mental health–focused apps as one of the main therapeutic …

Standardised assessment of evidence supporting the adoption of mobile health solutions: A Clinical Consensus Statement of the ESC Regulatory Affairs Committee

EG Caiani, H Kemps, P Hoogendoorn… - … Heart Journal-Digital …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Mobile health (mHealth) solutions have the potential to improve self-management and
clinical care. For successful integration into routine clinical practice, healthcare …