Maturity Model Assessment: Development of Digital Health Technologies

May 29, 2025 | Science of Patient Input

Optimizing Digital Health Technologies for Sustained Impact

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.

Pinpointing User Experience and Clinical Decision-Making Challenges in DHT Development

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.

What's Inside?

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

Want to Learn More?

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.

For more information, please download our one-pager or email us at spi@mdic.org.

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MDIC PCDHT Maturity Model
MDIC Science of Patient Input · May 2025

Patient-Centered Digital Health Technologies Working Group

DHT Maturity
Model Assessment

A comprehensive benchmarking framework to evaluate Digital Health Technologies against the gold standard of sustained user adoption and superior clinical decision making.

80
Questions
102
Resources
2
Primary Categories
8
Sub-Categories
Assessment Sections
Overall Progress 0%
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Assessment Results

Maturity scores by category — scored on a 1–3 scale. Unanswered questions excluded from averages.

Maturity Profile — Spider Chart

Score Interpretation

What each maturity band means across sub-categories.

Least Mature (<1.84)
Somewhat Mature (1.84–2.59)
Most Mature (>2.59)

Resource Index

102 curated references each linked to specific assessment questions.