dc.contributor.author	Deegan, Orla	en
dc.contributor.author	Ó Riain, Eoghan	en
dc.contributor.author	Martin, Denis	en
dc.contributor.author	Yoshitani, Mai	en
dc.contributor.author	O'Donoghue, Mairead	en
dc.contributor.author	Smart, Keith	en
dc.contributor.author	McMahon, Sinéad	en
dc.contributor.author	O’Sullivan, Trish	en
dc.contributor.author	O’Sullivan, Declan J.	en
dc.contributor.author	Cole, Aaron	en
dc.contributor.author	Hanrahan, Ciara	en
dc.contributor.author	Blake, Catherine	en
dc.contributor.author	McVeigh, Joseph G.	en
dc.contributor.author	Fullen, Brona M.	en
dc.contributor.author	Murphy, David	en
dc.contributor.funder	Interreg North-West Europe	en
dc.contributor.funder	European Commission	en
dc.date.accessioned	2025-08-15T10:32:27Z
dc.date.available	2025-08-15T10:32:27Z
dc.date.issued	2025-08-14	en
dc.description.abstract	Objectives Despite rapid technological advances, the adoption and deployment of digital health and virtual reality (VR) applications in healthcare appears to be progressing slowly. This scoping review is part of the Scale-Up4Rehab (SU4R) project, which aims to create a virtual rehabilitation clinic hosting high-quality digital health interventions. The aim of this review was to identify existing high-quality digital health evaluation frameworks, and from these, extract criteria to inform a new set of guidelines for assessing the applications that will be hosted on the SU4R platform. Methods The review followed Arksey and O’Malley’s scoping review framework and was reported according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines. A search strategy that included relevant keywords encompassing the domains of interest; digital health, evaluation frameworks and digital health applications was created between January 2007 and December 2023, across seven medical and computer science databases. Data from each study were extracted by a team of four reviewers using a customized data extraction tool. Results The review included 18 frameworks from 11 countries, incorporating 775 criteria. Nine evaluation frameworks were identified from the included papers (n=12) and a further nine frameworks from grey literature. The criteria were grouped into 19 categories, with the largest proportion of identified criteria grouped into the categories 'Data Security and Privacy' and 'Validation'. Conclusion The criteria extracted from the reviewed frameworks will contribute to the creation of a comprehensive evaluation framework. This new evaluation framework will form part of the approval process for the SU4R Virtual Rehabilitation Clinic. This will facilitate a rigorous selection process for the digital health and VR applications to be hosted on the virtual clinic.	en
dc.description.sponsorship	Interreg North-West Europe, European Union (Scale-Up4Rehab project, Grant Code: NWE0100082))	en
dc.description.status	Peer reviewed	en
dc.description.version	Accepted Version	en
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf	en
dc.identifier.citation	Deegan, O., O' Riain, E., Martin, D., Yoshitani, M., O’Donoghue, M., Smart, K., McMahon, S., O’Sullivan, T., O’Sullivan, D. J., Cole, A., Hanrahan, C., Blake, C., McVeigh, J. G., Fullen, B. M. and Murphy, D. (2025) 'A scoping review of frameworks evaluating digital health applications', Digital Health (21pp).	en
dc.identifier.journaltitle	Digital Health	en
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10468/17782
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	Sage	en
dc.rights	© 2025, the Authors, A scoping review of frameworks evaluating digital health applications', Digital Health (21pp). Copyright. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications.	en
dc.subject	Virtual reality	en
dc.subject	Rehabilitation	en
dc.subject	Digital health	en
dc.subject	Evaluation frameworks	en
dc.subject	Scoping review	en
dc.title	A scoping review of frameworks evaluating digital health applications	en
dc.type	Article (peer-reviewed)	en

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