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Integration of digital health applications into the German healthcare system: development of "The DiGA-Care Path".

G D GiebelC AbelsK BörchersB KampkaS NeusserH R CissarekF PlescherJ WasemN Blase
Published in: Frontiers in health services (2024)
The DiGA-Care Path helps to analyze the current supply of DiGAs step-by-step. Thereby, each step can be investigated in detail to identify problems and to detect further steps where quality improvements can be enabled. Depending on the perspective, focused either on the supply environment, or the supply delivered by the DiGA itself, the "main path" or the "sub-path" can be used, respectively. Besides the potential of the DiGA-Care Path to improve the current supply of DiGAs, it can help as an orientation for international policymakers or further stakeholders either to develop their own integration of apps into healthcare systems or for international manufacturers to consider entering the German market.
Keyphrases
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