How Can Research Keep Up With eHealth? Ten Strategies for Increasing the Timeliness and Usefulness of eHealth Research

• DOI: 10.2196/jmir.2925
• Publication Date: 2014-02-19T15:31:55Z
• Authors: Timothy B Baker; David H Gustafson; Dhavan Shah
• Keywords: eHealth; Moderation

Background: eHealth interventions appear and change so quickly that they challenge the way we conduct research. By time a randomized trial of new intervention is published, technological improvements clinical discoveries may make dated unappealing. This spate health-related apps websites lead consumers, patients, caregivers to use lack evidence efficacy.