Building Trust in Digital Health: The Missing Economic Piece

User trust is key to making digital health systems work. Recently, many guidelines have popped up to help build trust, especially in areas like artificial intelligence. These guidelines aim to help private companies and governments create trustworthy digital health systems. However, they often lack clear guidance on economic factors. This means it's hard to measure the costs and benefits of trust-building efforts. Without considering economics, these guidelines may not be as useful as they could be.We need to create tools that can measure how well trust-building principles work in practice. This includes using surveys and other methods to gather evidence. Understanding the cost-effectiveness of these principles is crucial for successful implementation. Additionally, we need to simplify the complex ideas around trust and make the conversation about trust clearer. Economic considerations are vital for effectively building user trust in digital health systems.