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Polish uMARS ready!

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It is our great pleasure to announce new publication from Polish Telemedicine and e-Health Society „Translation and Validation of the User Version of the Mobile Application Rating Scale Into the Polish Language: Cross-Sectional Methodological Study” authored by Wojciech Glinkowski, Tomasz Cedro, Joanna Nowicka, Rafał Doniec, Bartłomiej Michalak, Bożena Glinkowska, Stoyan Stoyanov. We hope this paper and methodology now adapted to users in Poland will help increase quality assessment of e-Health and m-Health solutions for both users and creators.

Open Access URL: https://formative.jmir.org/2026/1/e65067.

Abstract

Background: Mobile health (mHealth) apps can innovatively diagnose, prevent, and treat many diseases. The increasing use of mHealth apps necessitates an appropriate assessment standard.

Objective: This study aimed to translate the User Version of the Mobile Application Rating Scale (uMARS) into Polish, followed by validation, cultural adaptation, and examination of its reliability and validity.

Methods: The Polish version of uMARS was adapted, translated, and validated based on the free STOP COVID ProteGO Safe app available for Android and iOS platforms. A total of 117 participants rated the app using the translated scale and rerated it 1 week later

Results: The conceptual equivalence of all items and subscales of the original uMARS and its Polish version was confirmed. The translated uMARS scale exhibited high reliability (Cronbach α=0.95). The perceived test-retest reliability and total influence score were acceptable, with intraclass correlation coefficient values of 0.59 and 0.65, respectively

Conclusions: The translated scale matched the reliability of the original scale. It can help users choose the best mHealth apps available in Poland and report their quality. The Polish version of uMARS was cross-culturally validated and was found to be as reliable as the original uMARS. The translated and validated uMARS tool can be used to evaluate mHealth apps in various aspects. App developers can reliably assess app components and determine areas that require further improvement and development to deliver higher-quality apps. The Polish version of the uMARS can become a standard tool for evaluating the quality of mHealth apps in Poland.
JMIR Form Res 2026;10:e65067

Int. J. Telerehab. Vol. 17 No. 2 (2025)

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The new issue of the International Journal of Telerehabilitation, sponsored by Hawaii Pacific University, is now available at:  https://telerehab.hpu.edu

IJT enjoys a diverse international audience due to the expanding global relevance of telemedicine, telehealth, and telerehabilitation. In this issue, we are honored to present original work from: Australia, Brazil, Canada, India, New Zealand, the Netherlands, United States, and Ukraine. The articles represent the work of over 50 authors!

Articles from countries featured in past issues include Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Egypt, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, Thailand, Ukraine, and the United States.

IJT will next be open for new submissions on January 12, 2026, for about a month.

Respectfully,
Co-Editors: Ellen R. Cohn and Jana Cason

eTELEMED 2025

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Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results to eTELEMED 2025, The Seventeenth International Conference on eHealth, Telemedicine, and Social Medicine. eTELEMED 2025 is scheduled to be May 18 – 22, 2025 in Nice, France under the DigitalWorld 2025 umbrella. Submission (full paper) deadline: Extended to February 18, 2025. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article versions to one of the IARIA Journals. All events will be held in a hybrid mode: on site, prerecorded videos, voiced presentation slides, pdf slides.

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The PROMIS International Collaboration

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We are excited to inform you that, co-authored by Polish Telemedicine and e-Health Society member Dr Wojciech GLINKOWSKI, article Comparable Real-World Patient-Reported Outcomes Data Across Health Conditions, Settings, and Countries: The PROMIS International Collaboration, has been published in the Volume 5, Issue 9 (September 2024) of NEJM Catalyst Innovations in Care Delivery [1]. The full table of contents can be viewed here. Full article access online is free at [2] or available for download below.

[1] https://catalyst.nejm.org
[2] https://catalyst.nejm.org/stoken/default+domain/PJIV4PHTNMFZN6TT8S2T/full?redirectUri=/doi/full/10.1056/CAT.24.0045