PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Jeremy C Wyatt
AU  - Harold Thimbleby
AU  - Paul Rastall
AU  - Jan Hoogewerf
AU  - Darren Wooldridge
AU  - John Williams
TI  - What makes a good clinical app? Introducing the RCP Health Informatics Unit checklist
AID  - 10.7861/clinmedicine.15-6-519
DP  - 2015 Dec 01
TA  - Clinical Medicine
PG  - 519--521
VI  - 15
IP  - 6
4099  - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/15/6/519.short
4100  - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/15/6/519.full
SO  - Clin Med2015 Dec 01; 15
AB  - Doctors increasingly rely on medical apps running on smart phones or tablet computers to support their work. However, these apps vary hugely in the quality of their data input screens, internal data processing, the methods used to handle sensitive patient data and how they communicate their output to the user. Inspired by Donabedian's approach to assessing quality and the principles of good user interface design, the Royal College of Physicians’ Health Informatics Unit has developed and piloted an 18-item checklist to help clinicians assess the structure, functions and impact of medical apps. Use of this checklist should help clinicians to feel more confident about using medical apps themselves, about recommending them to their staff or prescribing them for patients.