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Evaluating digital health products
Resources to help anyone developing or running a digital health product to conduct an evaluation.
It’s important to conduct an evaluation for all digital health products. This can help you to demonstrate what impact your product has and how the costs compare to the benefits. It can provide you with information about how to make your service better, including what works and what doesn’t. It can also help you to demonstrate the value of your product to commissioners. Evaluation is useful whether you are developing your product or have already launched it.
These resources will help you to carry out evaluations. They are intended for anyone developing or running a digital health product. Digital health products can take different forms – for example, a service, campaign or other intervention. They might be provided through an app or website.
If you are working on non-digital services, go to Evaluation in health and wellbeing for more general health evaluation advice.
Step-by-step guide
These resources will help you to evaluate digital health products or services. Follow them in order for an overview of the whole evaluation process.
- Get started: evaluating digital health products
- Define how your product works: evaluating digital health products
- Design your evaluation: evaluating digital health products
- Choose evaluation methods: evaluating digital health products
- Carry out your evaluation: evaluating digital health products
- Analyse your data: evaluating digital health products
- Use your results: evaluating digital health products
Methods library
Read more about specific evaluation methods. This is a quick-reference guide to the methods explained in the step-by-step guide.
- Analysis of routinely collected data: descriptive studies
- User feedback study: descriptive studies
- Before-and-after study: comparative studies
- Randomised controlled trial: comparative studies
- A/B testing: comparative studies
- Focus group study: qualitative studies
- Interview study: qualitative studies
- Usability testing: qualitative studies
Published 30 January 2020