Digital Technology Assessment Criteria (DTAC)

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Last updated: Aug 01, 2024 by Sarah Stuffins
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The Digital Technology Assessment Criteria for health and social care (DTAC) gives staff, patients and citizens confidence that the digital health tools they use meet our clinical safety, data protection, technical security, interoperability and usability and accessibility standards.

This page details the following:

Purpose and Scope

The DTAC brings together legislation and good practice across clinical safety, data protection, technical security, interoperability and usability and accessibility standards and is designed to be used by healthcare organisations to assess suppliers at the point of procurement or as part of a due diligence process, to make sure new digital technologies meet our minimum baseline standards.

Patients Know Best (PKB) passed NHS England’s DTAC assessment in February 2022. PKB have an ongoing commitment to developing and running the platform with the required security, governance and accessible standards for our users.

The DTAC is a living document and is reviewed periodically to ensure that the most up to date information is provided in relation to the five core components.

Product Overview

Patients Know Best is a Personal Health Record system. PKB facilitates borderless, integrated care. The system connects information from primary, secondary, social and mental health care providers, to create a single, unified copy of patient data accessible by patients and their carers. Patients can also upload their own data to help them self-manage their health and wellbeing. This includes a symptom tracker and uploading measurements for patients to see their trends. Organisations can choose what data to release to patients, including diagnoses, allergies, medications, dynamic care plans, test results, measurements and documents.

The PKB platform does not suggest actions to patients, it is a data store to allow patients to both see and save their data securely. Where organisations choose to, asynchronous messaging allow a patient to contact their clinical teams for shared decision making.

DTAC

PKB’s DTAC can be accessed here:

Usability and Accessibility weighted score: 85%

Supporting Documentation