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Digital health apps are increasingly becoming part of our healthcare experience because they offer fast and convenient solutions for problems arising from capacity shortages in traditional medical systems.
While these apps are available in large numbers, it is difficult to channel them into public health systems to harness their benefits on a population-wide basis.
Germany’s DiGA system (for Digitale Gesundheitsanwendung) tackles this issue with a prescription-based app model that is cost-reimbursed by all legal health insurers.
But despite its promising model attracting attention from other European countries, a review of health insurance companies in Germany after two years of implementation shows that health apps are of little use and too expensive.
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