Digital health applications and the fast-track pathway to public health coverage in Germany: challenges and opportunities based on first results.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Evidence-based decision-making is the sine qua non for safe and effective patient care and the long-term functioning of health systems. Since 2020 Digital Health Applications (DiHA) in Germany have been undergoing a systematic pathway to be reimbursed by statutory health insurance (SHI) which is attracting attention in other European countries. We therefore investigate coverage decisions on DiHA and the underlying evidence on health care effects, which legally include both medical outcomes and patient-centred structural and procedural outcomes.

Methods

Based on publicly available data of the Institute for Medicines and Medical Devices searched between 08/2021 and 02/2022, all DiHA listed in the corresponding registry and thus reimbursable by the SHI were systemati

SUBMITTER: Lantzsch H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9490912 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature