This document provides quality requirements for health apps and defines a health app quality label in order to visualize the quality and reliability of health apps. This document is applicable to health apps, which are a special form of health software. It covers the entire life cycle of health apps. This document is intended for use by app manufacturers as well as app assessment organizations in order to communicate the quality and reliability of a health app. Consumers, patients, carers, health care professionals and their organizations, health authorities, health insurers and the wider public can use the health app quality label and report when recommending or selecting a health app for use, or for adoption in care guidelines, care pathways and care contracts. Outside the scope of this document are guidelines to comply to the medical device regulation.
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Foreword
Introduction
1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Terms and definitions
3.1 General terms
3.2 Terms relating to apps
3.3 Terms relating to risk management
4 Health app assessment process
4.1 Quality assessment
4.2 Quality requirements
4.3 Health app quality report
4.4 Health app quality evidence pack
4.5 Health app quality label
5 Quality requirements
5.1 Product information
5.2 Healthy and safe
5.3 Easy to use
5.4 Secure data
5.5 Robust build
Annex A Health app quality label (normative)
Annex B Health app quality score calculation method (normative)
Annex C Rationale (informative)
Annex D Product safety and lifecycle process recommendations (informative)
Annex E Application profile – Contact tracing apps (informative)
Annex F Ethical considerations in health apps (informative)
Annex G Potential uses of this document (informative)