ReviewJournal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA2023
Digital health and capability maturity models-a critical thematic review and conceptual synthesis of the literature.
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- Developing the Digital Health Communication Maturity Model: Systematic Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Pooled it
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- Digital health maturity models for Human Resources for Health Information Systems in low- and middle-income countries in Africa: A scoping review.Journal of public health in Africa · 2026Review
- The Maturity of Maturity Models in Health Care and Informatics.AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science proceedings. AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science · 2026Article
- Associations between digital maturity in health and primary health care performance, 109 countries.Bulletin of the World Health Organization · 2025Article
- Developing a maturity-level model for interprofessional collaboration in elective surgery preparation.Narra J · 2025Article
- Policy context and digital development: a comparative study of trajectories in 4 Canadian academic health centers over 30 years.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2025Article
- Evaluating Maturity Models in Healthcare Information Systems: A Comprehensive Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Research on cross-organizational integration and sharing strategies of digital health resources in the context of cloud platforms.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- A maturity model for Clinical Trials Management Ecosystem.Journal of clinical and translational science · 2025Article
- Primary Care EHR data on Social Determinants of Health: Quality and Fitness for Purpose in Precision/Personalised Medicine.Yearbook of medical informatics · 2024Article
- Frameworks for Evaluating the Impact of Safety Technology Use.Healthcare informatics research · 2023Article
- Delphi Consensus Study on Technical Skills for Doctor-to-Doctor Telemedicine Conferences and Consultations in Asia.Telemedicine reportsArticle
- Designing AI tools to advance health equity in resource-constrained low- and middle-income countries.Digital healthArticle
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Abstract
objectiveA literature review of capability maturity models (MMs) to inform the conceptualization, development, implementation, evaluation, and mainstreaming of MMs in digital health (DH).
methodsElectronic databases were searched using "digital health," "maturity models," and related terms based on the Digital Health Profile and Maturity Assessment Toolkit Maturity Model (DHPMAT-MM). Covidence was used to screen, identify, capture, and achieve consensus on data extracted by the authors. Descriptive statistics were generated. A thematic analysis and conceptual synthesis were conducted.
findingsDiverse domain-specific MMs and model development, implementation, and evaluation methods were found. The spread and pattern of different MMs verified the essential DH foundations and five maturity stages of the DHPMAT-MM. An unanticipated finding was the existence of a new category of community-facing MMs. Common characteristics included:1. A dynamic lifecycle approach to digital capability maturity, which is:a. responsive to environmental changes and may improve or worsen over time;b. accumulative, incorporating the attributes of the preceding stage; andc. sequential, where no maturity stage must be skipped.2. Sociotechnical quality improvement of the DH ecosystem and MM, which includes:a. investing in the organization's human, hardware, and software resources andb. a need to engage and improve the DH competencies of citizens.
conclusionsThe diversity in MMs and variability in methods and content can create cognitive dissonance. A metamodel like the DHPMAT-MM can logically unify the many domain-specific MMs and guide the overall implementation and evaluation of DH ecosystems and MMs over the maturity lifecycle.
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