Digital Medicine Society (DiME)

A collaborative work published recently highlights a viewpoint on how to advance digital health applications in real-world evidence generation.

The Digital Medicine Society (DiME) and the Health Innovation Hub (HIH) of the German Federal Ministry of Health published their view on advancing digital health and priorities for innovation in The Lancet Digital Health, with a focus on global best practices and a roadmap for methodological advancements needed to accelerate innovation in the space.

Germany’s “fast-track” pathway, a regulation passed in 2019 that created a pathway for regulatory and reimbursement for digital health applications in the German market, allows for doctors to prescribe certain categories of digital health applications while evidence demonstrating a positive healthcare effect is still being collected, according to a news release.

“Authorities across Europe are beginning to emulate Germany’s innovative polici…