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.
