OP55 Defining And Classifying Digital Health Technologies: A Review Of Literature And Delphi Consensus Approach
Annapoorna Prakash, Marcia Tummers, Wietske Kievit, Liza van Mun, Jeremy Diez, Zoe Garrett, Sonia Muñoz-López, Joan Segur-Ferrer, Livio Battaglia, Michela Santurri, Simona Paone, Wija Oortwijn · 2025
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Annapoorna Prakash and co-authors wrote a 2025 study that tries to settle what counts as a digital health tool. Groups that judge new health tools need a shared set of words, but each country has used its own terms. The lack of a shared set of terms has slowed work on fair rules for judging these tools.
The team read past work and found 328 ways the term had been defined. Three parts came up again and again: what the tool is for, who uses it, and the tech behind it. The team also found nine ways that countries sort these tools into groups. A two-round survey of experts then backed the three parts and backed sorting tools by what they are for. The shared words should help groups in many countries judge tools in the same way.
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| CREATOR | Annapoorna Prakash, Marcia Tummers, Wietske Kievit, Liza van Mun, Jeremy Diez, Zoe Garrett, Sonia Muñoz-López, Joan Segur-Ferrer, Livio Battaglia, Michela Santurri, Simona Paone, Wija Oortwijn |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 3 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |