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Journal of technology in behavioral science, 2016-12, Vol.1 (1-4), p.16-21
Ort / Verlag
Cham: Springer International Publishing
Erscheinungsjahr
2016
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In the healthcare sector, top-down, authority-imposed efforts in health information technology (HIT) have accelerated the initial transition to computer technology (HITECH Act, Certification Commission for HIT, Meaningful Use, HL7), while the ready availability of mobile technology and the ease of producing health-oriented apps has fueled more bottom-up, democratic approaches to HIT, resulting in a chaotic mix of health apps of varying degrees of usefulness, quality, effectiveness, and danger. Because any individual or group anywhere in the world can easily develop and distribute a health app, a top-down approach to standards development and enforcement by government regulations, policing and penalties is sure to fail. To move mobile HIT to the next level, a common vocabulary and set of quality standards for the review of health apps would benefit both end users and industry participants by encouraging developers to secure favorable ratings by meeting the standards. [...]it is unrealistic to expect individual clinicians to personally judge an array of digital health products or to investigate how each product conforms to the complex ethical guidelines suggested by various professional organizations (Jones and Moffitt 2016). [...]general adoption of standards and codes of conduct for health information technology products requires collaboration by the many stakeholder groups in the digital health ambit, including patients and consumers (Tomlinson et al. 2013; Powell et al. 2014).