title: Concepts for Quality Assurance of Health Related Apps.
abstract: The growing number and variety of available mobile health apps makes it increasingly difficult for users to identify apps that match their needs and are safe and trustworthy. Based on the results of a non-systematic search process (internet, PubMed) using terms related to quality and health apps, the presented work aims at giving a short overview over and categorizing existing approaches for assessing and rating the quality of apps to be used in health related contexts.
authors.affiliation: Hannover Medical School, Peter L. Reichertz Institute for Medical Informatics. University of Braunschweig - Institute of Technology and Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
authors.forename: Uta
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Hillebrand
authors.affiliation: Hannover Medical School, Peter L. Reichertz Institute for Medical Informatics. University of Braunschweig - Institute of Technology and Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
authors.forename: Ute
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: von Jan
authors.affiliation: Hannover Medical School, Peter L. Reichertz Institute for Medical Informatics. University of Braunschweig - Institute of Technology and Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
authors.forename: Urs-Vito
authors.initials: UV
authors.lastname: Albrecht
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D063731:Mobile Applications / Q000592:standards*; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000592:standards*; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000592:standards*