Health Apps: Evaluation of existing guidelines
In the grey under-regulated zone of mobile health and health apps, people willingly exchange their data for a variety of services and for the feeling of empowerment these new technologies offer. Through research, we are comparing quality assurance guidelines in the field of health apps.
Our research highlights that these policies are not comprehensive; that they spread across different agencies and lack practical guidance on privacy and data protection principles. Therefore, we argue for trans-national minimum quality assurance standards that can guide health app development and implementation.
Some follow-up questions for this research could be: what are the best policy instruments to intervene in regulating something that is already widely used across nations? And who are the stakeholders these policies should address?
Project Partner:
external pageOECD
Project Team:
Agata Ferretti
Effy Vayena
Ferretti, A., Ronchi, E., & Vayena, E. (2019). From principles to practice: benchmarking government guidance on health apps. The Lancet Digital Health, 1(2). external pagehttps://doi.org/10.1016/S2589-7500(19)30027-5