SocialWellth formed a strategic partnershipwith HITLab in the first part of a push to establish a standards and certification program for digital health apps calledXcertia. The collaboration news was timed to coincide with HITLab’s conference this week.
SocialWellth, founded and led by David Vinson, has an app curation lab that has grown to more than 500 apps. Last year, it supplemented the lab with assets that came from itsacquisition of Happtique.
Although app certification programs have claimed that they want to take the wild west out of the app market by vetting apps, they have not had a great track record. One of Happtique’s biggest shortcomings was that it had lax standards on the security of the apps it certified and lost credibility. A program initiated by UK’s National Health Service failed to make it past the pilot stage. For the full article click here
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