The published literature on mHealth interventions, uses the terms-feasibility, acceptability and usability. The terms obviously originate from our understanding of health interventions in real life. Do we need to modify these terms? Should we use them as they are? What is the way forward? These are the definitions of the terms available on online dictionaries- feasibility (the state or degree of being easily or conveniently done i.e., whether the intervention can be implemented given time, financial, legal, personal, and social constraints), acceptability (the judgments about treatment

procedures by nonprofessionals and consumers of treatment as to whether

treatment is fair, and reasonable) , and usability (Usability is the ease of use and learnability of a human-made object). My impression is that in IT world, acceptability [User Acceptance Testing (UAT) how the end user experience the app] is the same as usability. I look forward to hearing from experts and colleagues...

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