Table 1.

Ways to incorporate principles into phases of femtech development.

Phase of development	Principles
	Interdisciplinary stakeholder–inclusive teams	Person-centered approach	Advancing reproductive health equity
Conceptualization and content development	Conduct semistructured qualitative work (one-on-one interviews or focus groups) with women, health care providers (including subspecialty providers), and other expert stakeholders	Structure interview guides around evidence-based best practices to identify gaps in knowledge, and understand experiences and preferences related to reproductive care	Incorporate historical and theoretical frameworks in conceptualizing the tool and its content to ensure an equity lens from the start of any work
Design implementation	Review content and functionality iteratively with members of key stakeholder groups such as patients, medical experts, human-computer interaction specialists, bioethicists, social scientists, and relevant community organization leaders (eg, reproductive justice advocacy groups, church leaders, women’s shelters, doulas)	Design features and content to incorporate clinical best practices, yet focus on users’ informational needs and personal values	Structure advisory or expert panels to include content and lived-experience experts; seek diverse perspectives within each category of stakeholder
Testing	Prioritize patient and other stakeholder goals for the tool	Plan acceptability metrics around patient-centered/patient-defined outcomes	Power trials to identify differences in outcomes for diverse patient populations based on preplanned equity-driven hypotheses