The 04/20/2016
Health apps are on the rise on the App Store and Google Play, but how do you know if the advice there is of scientific value? The French startup DMD Health thought of creating a label, which certifies the seriousness of the contents.
A health label
More than 150,000 applications exist today, which give you medical answers in case of health problems. Often relevant advice, but we never really have the assurance that it comes from doctors. This is why the French startup DMD Santé created a label, mHealth Quality, to let users know for sure whether the application they are using is serious.
To do this, DMD Santé called on health professionals but also on patients, to establish the criteria that will allow publishers to obtain this label. Criteria that respect the advice of health authorities. To obtain this label, application editors will therefore have to complete a questionnaire to verify the medical, legal and ethical compliance of the advice given to users.
A questionnaire that guarantees legal compliance
” We have a base of 350 questions for 34 possible categories », Explained Guillaume Marchand, president of the startup and psychiatrist, during the presentation of his label on the occasion of the first parliamentary forum on connected health, on March 29. “ The idea was to create as for cars, a technical control, that is to say a mark of trust “, he added.
Application editors will therefore have to ensure compliance with the standards in force, if they wish to obtain this label. And once they get it, they will have to change the content of their application if the legislation changes. ” We don’t want to sanction publishers », Specified the entrepreneur. ” The goal is to support them. “
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