Maturity Model Assessment: Development of Digital Health Technologies

Digital Health Technologies (DHTs) are reshaping the future of healthcare, but many face a common challenge: failure to achieve long-term adoption and integration into clinical workflows. That’s where MDIC’s DHT Maturity Model Assessment steps in—a groundbreaking framework designed to elevate DHTs to the gold standard of patient-centered care and clinical excellence.

The Medical Device Innovation Consortium (MDIC), through its Patient Centered Digital Health Technologies (PCDHT) Working Group, has developed a comprehensive resource that addresses critical gaps in digital health product development. By offering an 80-question self-assessment tool across two primary categories—User Experience (UX) and Shared Clinical Decision Making (SDM)—this model helps DHT developers, MedTech innovators, and product teams:

• Enhance usability and patient engagement

• Improve clinical decision-making support

• Benchmark products against industry standards using visual scoring outputs

• Accelerate innovation with curated case studies and best practices

This resource offers a structured framework to help developers build DHTs that are not only user-friendly but also drive better clinical decision-making.

This Maturity Model offers a robust set of tools and knowledge to transform your digital health solutions, including:

• An 80-question assessment tool across two core pillars: User Experience and Shared Clinical Decision Making
• 102 curated resources including case studies, academic references, and best practices
• Real-world examples from DHTs supporting spinal cord stimulators, insulin pumps, and diabetes care platforms
• Visual scoring outputs to benchmark and guide product development
• Use cases for early-stage innovation, product iteration, and integration into existing digital ecosystems

We’re looking for companies to pilot our new Maturity Model: a strategic framework designed to accelerate the responsible development of digital health technologies and drive sustained adoption and improved clinical decision-making.

Sign up to get involved—for more information, please download our one-pager or email us at spi@mdic.org.