Leaders from three health systems helped draft a framework they say can better evaluate digital health interventions.
The DEFINED Framework, published May 31 in npj Digital Medicine, aims to make it easier for health systems, payers and trade organizations to identify digital health solutions that are evidence-based. The authors say the guidelines consider evidence and regulations unique to digital health while employing "robust methodologies" developed for nondigital healthcare.
"We hope this will promote evidence-based decision making, encourage adoption of effective [digital health interventions], and thereby improve health outcomes across a range of conditions and populations," they wrote.
The study's health system authors are affiliated with Danville, Pa.-based Geisinger, San Francisco-based UCSF Health, and Farmington, Conn.-based UConn Health.