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# Development of a decision-making checklist tool to support technology selection in digital health research
Camille Nebeker,1,2, Rebecca J. Bartlett Ellis,3 John Torous4,
[[16-02-2022]]
- Increase digital health research but lack associated guidance.
- Potential risks of using mobile apps and pervasive sensing devices in health research
- Concerns about privacy
- Concerns about security - hacking
- Concerns about abuses - lack of trust in data uses.
[[Reducing Drinking Among People Experiencing Homelessness Protocol for the Development and Testing of a Just-in-Time Adaptive Intervention]] - I suspect this will be a consideration such as this study.
- Emerging initiatives to guide ethical practice
- Such as curated list of safe apps to use released by associations and organisations.
What is this about?
- ==Use the APA framework as a basis to build safety in the system. The need to have a framework, and checklist to help the decision making process in digital health systems.== ^ce32b7
- [[APA evaluation framework for mental health apps]]
Building upon the 2016 decision-making framework, APA working group. ^5fa061
1. Privacy & Confidentiality
2. Evidence
3. Usability
4. Interoperability
With the foundation of Ethical Principles from the Belmont Report.
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