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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.

Zachary Klein

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.

Emily Belowich

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. 

Emily Belowich

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.

Wenbo Bai

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.

Michael Lutz

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.

Josh Seidman

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.

Josh Seidman

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.

Dana Macher

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.

Fred Bently

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.

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.

Jenna Ivan

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.

Emily Belowich

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.

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