Healthcare IT News April 18, 2022
Emily Olsen

A development study published in JMIR describes the App Rating Inventory, which aims to help clinicians find high-quality tools to use with patients.

Researchers created a health app rating system aimed at helping clinicians find high- quality tools to recommend to their patients, according to a development study published in JMIR.

The App Rating Inventory, which was built by the Defense Health Agency’s Connected Health branch, scores apps in three categories: evidence, content and customizability. All 28 items in the system are weighted equally and the scoring system is binary, meaning the app either has a specific feature or it doesn’t. The final score is the sum of the three categories.

“The category and final scores derived from the...

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