Setting the framework for intelligent apps

Abstract

It is with great privilege that we present this second issue of the Journal for the year with a poignant publication on the framework of app development by Marvel et al. Many of our readership audience, who themselves are app developers are overtly aware of the need for closer examination of app quality over quantity. Recent reviews of apps in medical subspecialties have highlighted deficiencies in what is largely an unsolicited market. Issues that have emerged on review of medical apps include scientific accuracy of content, achieving the intended objectives, paucity of peer review/ expert involvement, and consideration of the needs the end-user. Regulation of medical apps in particular is tantamount given they are readily accessible to a public audience. Thus misleading information or inaccuracies of the app may have ramifications upon individual health directly.