Evaluating and Adapting Quality Criteria for Digital Health Apps in Frailty and Dementia Care

Digital health applications have the potential to transform conventional healthcare delivery. They range from simple apps that track activity to more sophisticated ones that can monitor a plethora of health conditions. One important aspect in this developing landscape is the evaluation and assurance of the quality of these apps. Currently, many initiatives initiated by both public and private actors exist to address this issue. These include the Organisation for the Review of Care and Health Applications (ORCHA), the Digitale Gesundheitsanwendungen (DiGA), and the ISO/TC 215 N 3535. Each initiative defines quality criteria for digital health apps. In this paper, we focus on apps related to frailty and/or dementia, that primarily affect older adults and, using the criteria defined in the previous initiatives, we propose an initial list of quality criteria tailored for this context.