Equity and behavioral digital health interventions: Strategies to improve benefit and reach.

Behavioral digital health interventions have great potential to improve health. Unfortunately, many groups (e.g., people with low-income levels, people who are geographically isolated, older adults) may face significant obstacles to technology access, adoption and use. Additionally, research has found that biases and stereotypes can be embedded within digital health interventions. As such, behavioral digital health interventions that intend to improve overall population health may unintentionally widen health-related inequities. This commentary introduces the 5-point framework: Partner, Identify, Demonstrate, Access, Report (PIDAR) to be used in the development, testing and implementation of technology to avoid creating or worsening health inequities.