Table 2: IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics App Functionality Scoring System.
| Functionality Scoring Criteria | Description |
|---|---|
| 1. Inform | Provides information in a variety of formats (text, photo, video) |
| 2. Instruct | Provides instructions to the user |
| 3. Record | Capture user-entered data |
| a. Collect data | Able to enter and store health data on individual phone |
| b. Share data | Able to transmit health data |
| c. Evaluate data | Able to evaluate the health data entered by patient and provider, provider and administrator, or patient and caregiver |
| d. Intervene | Able to send alerts based on the data collected or propose behavioural intervention or changes |
| 4. Display | Graphically display user-entered data/output user-entered data |
| 5. Guide | Provide guidance based on user-entered information, and may further offer a diagnosis, or recommend a consultation with a physician/a course of treatment |
| 6. Remind or alert | Provide reminders to the user |
| 7. Communicate | Provide communication between healthcare professionals and patients and/or provide links to social networks |
Total score (0–11): one point is assigned to each functionality that is present.