Citizen Development

IT departments, particularly healthcare IT, cannot meet the growing demand due to limited and expensive resources, competing priorities focused on enterprise-wide solutions, and time requirements to collaborate and gather detailed specs to build an app.

As a way to bridge the gap between IT and business/clinical users, a new kind of development platform has emerged that allows clinical experts to create apps for themselves and their peers without the need to learn software code or even engage their IT departments. Individuals who are building apps using these new online app-building tools are referred to as Citizen Developers.

EVAL is a new healthcare-specific Citizen Developer app platform for creating clinical decision support apps for healthcare practitioners. To empower clinicians to drive their own digital transformation initiatives, the EVAL app platform is designed with pre-built components that intuitively guides citizen developers as they convert clinical protocols, workflows, guideline recommendations, calculations and educational resources into digital decision support tools.

Citizen developers creating apps on the EVAL platform are typically healthcare practitioners and researchers who need a clinical workflow, decision tree, calculator, or other kind of app to standardize their clinical practice.

Healthcare IT professionals also use EVAL platform extensively as they partner with practitioners to collaborate on building and deploying IT-approved apps throughout their organization.

Prior coding experience is not required to use EVAL due to the intuitive and simple point-and-click Graphical User Interface (GUI) and pre-built components. Anyone can create a simple app on their own following the tutorials within this guide.

As you explore the EVAL Health app platform, remember that the EVAL community of Citizen Developers and the EVAL support team (support@eval.health) are online to help you. Go over to the community discussion board to join the conversations and learn from each other.

If you or your team are looking for an accelerator program to learn and use EVAL Health app platform within your organization, then contact us at (support@eval.health) to schedule an online training course.

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Try the 8-minute app example!