The Influence of a Wearable-Based Reward Program on Health Care Costs: Retrospective, Propensity Score-Matched Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Mobile health (mHealth) technology holds great promise as an easily accessible and effective solution to improve population health at scale. Despite the abundance of mHealth offerings, only a minority are grounded in evidence-based practice, whereas even fewer have line of sight into population-level health care spending, limiting the clinical utility of such tools.

Objective

This study aimed to explore the influence of a health plan-sponsored, wearable-based, and reward-driven digital health intervention (DHI) on health care spending over 1 year. The DHI was delivered through a smartphone-based mHealth app available only to members of a large commercial health plan and leveraged a combination of behavioral economics, user-generated sensor data from the connected

SUBMITTER: Zaleski A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10131601 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature