Applying Website Rankings to Digital Health Centers in the United States to Assess Public Engagement: Website Usability Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

As the public increasingly uses the internet to search for resources and information regarding health and medicine, it is important that health care organizations provide adequate web resources. Website usability refers to the ease of user experience on a website. In this study, we conducted usability analyses on digital health center websites.

Objective

The primary aims of this study were to (1) replicate a preexisting usability scoring methodology for digital health centers; (2) apply and test this replicated usability scoring methodology on a sample set of digital health center websites; and (3) derive recommendations from the results on potential areas of improvements for our sample of digital health center websites.

Methods

Website usability testing wa

SUBMITTER: Calvano JD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8088849 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature