Digital Health
The integration of new technology into the healthcare landscape is enabling information exchange, enhancing clinical decision making, and engaging patients in new ways. Our understanding of digital solutions can help you identify opportunities to leverage those tools to engage consumers and improve patient care.
Video: Maximizing Access & Uptake for Digital Health Technologies
Significant investment and attention has been paid to the digital health space in recent years as a promising frontier in improving care for patients. In this video, Avalere experts discuss several solutions, including increased, streamlined stakeholder collaboration, improvements in evidence generation, established value assessment frameworks, and identification of a clear reimbursement pathway that can create a path for more optimal access, uptake, and utilization.
Video: Innovations in Kidney Care
Avalere experts discuss trends and advancements in the kidney disease space, including payment models, digital health interventions, and key considerations for manufacturers.
Remote Monitoring Services Flexibilities Will Change as PHE Ends
Avalere survey finds 65% of providers experience challenges associated with billing, coding, and reimbursement for RPM.
Quality and Value in Telehealth: Progress and Potential
Telehealth solutions aimed at enhancing quality, cost, and equity require greater investment in evidence generation and clinical practice guideline development.
Manufacturers’ Opportunities in Digital Therapeutics
Digital therapeutics is the fastest growing field in digital health, offering promising benefits for patient outcomes and healthcare system efficiencies.
Leveraging Digital Health Tools to Advance Patient Support Solutions
Digital health tools are an increasingly important component of complete patient support solutions that can optimize patient care, yet they are currently underutilized.
Bricks and Clicks: Telehealth and Hybrid Models of Care
The COVID-19 pandemic has catalyzed the growth of hybrid care delivery models, highlighting the need for clinical guidance and stakeholder agility.
New Data-Sharing and Interoperability Mandates Create New Challenges
Digital health will continue to be a focus under recently confirmed Secretary Becerra‘s leadership at the Department of Health and Human Services. As the Biden administration looks to enforce compliance across a range of data interoperability and price transparency rules, as well as usher in new Food & Drug Administration (FDA) and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) coverage policies for medical technologies and digital health tools, the industry is responding with a range of innovations.
IoT: Opportunities and Use Cases for Life Sciences Organizations
Internet of Things (IoT) is a catch-all term that refers to any device that can connect to a network (including the Internet) and communicate with other devices.
Podcast: What’s Next for Telehealth?
Tune into another episode of Start Your Day with Avalere. In this segment, our experts discuss the state of the telehealth sector, the issue of payment for virtual care, and the future of telehealth.
Video: What’s Next for Telehealth?
Tune into another episode of Start Your Day with Avalere. In this segment, our experts discuss the state of the telehealth sector, the issue of payment for virtual care, and the future of telehealth.
Expanding Patient Access to Digital Mental Health Services & Products
The COVID-19 pandemic is driving greater demand for digital mental health products and services. Stronger scientific evidence is necessary to determine value and increase payer reimbursement.
Podcast: CMS and ONC Interoperability and Patient Access Mandates, Part 2
Tune into another episode of Start Your Day with Avalere. In this segment, health plan experts delve into the strategic opportunities the federal government’s interoperability requirements present and consider which mandates might be coming down the pike.
Podcast: CMS and ONC Interoperability and Patient Access Mandates, Part 1
Tune into another episode of Start Your Day with Avalere. In this segment, health plan experts delve into the federal government’s interoperability requirements and how plans are navigating these changes.
The Impact of Telehealth on the Future Care-Delivery Landscape
On June 11, Avalere experts explored the future of telehealth and how organizations can help shape and take advantage of its increased utilization.
Webinar: The Impact of Telehealth on the Future Care-Delivery Landscape
Avalere experts explored the future role of telehealth and how organizations can help shape and take advantage of its increased utilization.
What’s Next for Telehealth? HITECH May Offer Lessons
Major catastrophes, like natural disasters, global pandemics, and sudden economic downturns require rapid interventions to protect the American public from long-term health and financial damage. Because there is significant momentum and political will during and immediately following a catastrophe, promising innovations may be fast-tracked.
FDA Guidance on Digital Devices for Mental Health During COVID-19
To protect the public’s health during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) released guidance expanding the availability of digital health therapeutic devices and applications for psychiatric disorders by clarifying which regulatory requirements it does not plan on enforcing as well as which products do not necessitate FDA oversight. This guidance intends to limit extraneous contact between patients (users) and providers by providing regulatory flexibility for low risk products. The policies will last until the national public health emergency ends.
Provider Impact of COVID-19 Telehealth Policies by Specialty
Approximately ⅓ of physician services payments are eligible for telehealth reimbursement under Medicare (fee-for-service) FFS through existing Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) guidance as of January 2020, in addition to temporary coding guidance specific to COVID-19 effective as of March 1, 2020. Avalere’s analysis highlights the immediate potential for specific physician specialties to utilize telehealth based on temporary flexibilities regarding which procedures are eligible for telehealth reimbursement.
Chronic Disease Mobile Health Apps Need Better Value Propositions and Evidence
Rising healthcare costs and the increased prevalence of chronic disease in the US are incentivizing stakeholders to develop new solutions to tackle these issues. Many have turned to digital health innovations like mobile health applications to facilitate care prevention and management for chronic disease, but significant gaps remain in their ability to be used in real-world practice.