Digital Technology Assessment Criteria

Regulator guidance United Kingdom · 2021

The Digital Technology Assessment Criteria (DTAC) is the NHS's national baseline that digital health technologies are assessed against before being adopted across the health and care system. Introduced by NHS England, it brings together clinical safety (DCB0129/DCB0160), data protection (including the DSPT), technical security, interoperability, and usability and accessibility into a single assessment. It is how NHS organizations judge whether a digital product is safe and suitable to deploy, giving health-tech vendors one consistent bar to clear.

Sectoral regime. It binds the industries below; companies outside them generally fall outside it.

Countries

Where this binds. Each links to the providers apis.io has catalogued there.

Regions

Industries

Each links to that industry as a scored cohort — so the question "how ready is this sector for the regime that governs it?" becomes one you can actually look at.