Development of the key performance indicators for digital health interventions; a scoping review
Digital health interventions offer new methods for delivering healthcare, with the potential to innovate healthcare services. Key performance indicators (KPIs) play a role in the evaluation, measurement, and improvement in healthcare quality and service performance. The aim of this scoping review was to identify current knowledge and evidence surrounding the development of key performance indicators for digital health interventions.
What’s the current context? Why the need for this article?
An article of this nature can prove important firstly for pharma industry by providing a framework for DHI development and secondly for healthcare professionals to co-create digital health interventions (DHIs) based on this framework; also, this knowledge can help technology & service providers identify evidence-based key performance indicators and ensure rigorous design of DHI.
What to expect in the article?
Authors from Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin Schools of Nursing; the Institute for Health and Society, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo; Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, and Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Belgium conducted a literature search across ten key databases and hand-searched the literature from the references of included articles, without restrictions based on publication status or year.
As a result, few articles were identified highlighting a significant gap in evidence-based knowledge in this domain. All the included articles discussed the involvement of stakeholders in developing KPIs for digital health interventions, which were performed using various methodologies. The articles acknowledged a lack of literature related to the subject.
The article concluded that:
To allow comparability between key performance indicator initiatives and facilitate work in the field, further research would be beneficial to develop a common methodology for key performance indicators development for digital health interventions.
Brenner M. et al. , Digital Health 2023.
Where to read the article?
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Contact Information:
Catherine McCabe – School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
