The Ongoing Battle to Improve Access to Care Through Digital Health, per Ramin Bastani of Healthvana

Patients are choosing virtual care for mental health needs. But telehealth usage in other areas has dropped, suggesting some patients prefer office visits.

Briana Contreras, an editor of Managed Healthcare Executive, had the pleasure of catching up with MHE Editorial Advisory Board Member, Ateev Mehrotra, MD, MPH, who is a professor of healthcare policy at Harvard Medical School and an Associate Professor of Medicine and Hospitalist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

Goldsack also explained the Digital Medicine Society’s role as a convener and developer of evidentiary frameworks in a recent interview with Managed Healthcare Executive.

This month's episode of Tuning In to the C-Suite features Erica Jain, CEO & co-founder of digital health company, Healthie. In this discussion, Jain shared some of the challenges or things to avoid when creating a digital health startup, based on her journey with starting Healthie in 2016. She also addressed some best practices and tools that can help those working toward a digital health startup.

Most commercial payers cover remote physiologic monitoring, but coverage of electronic consults and electronic visits is less consistent. Commercial plans also have different levels of transparency.

The assessment framework developed by Peterson Health Technology Institute and the Institute for Clinical and Economic Research will prioritize products’ clinical benefits and economic impact of digital health technologies. The companies will announce the first set of health technologies to be reviewed by mid-October.