HealthLeaders Media September 16, 2022
Eric Wicklund

The health plan is one of several healthcare organizations to develop a list of curated digital health apps and programs that can be prescribed for members or integrated into connected care treatments.

Digital health apps give healthcare organizations an opportunity to direct resources to patients in need of specialty care, but matching the right resources to the right patient is difficult when the marketplace features hundreds of thousands of apps.

To tackle that dilemma, health systems like Kaiser Permanente, UC Davis, Froedtert, and Banner Health and health plans like Cigna, Optum, and Express Scripts are developing formularies, or platforms that contain vetted apps and digital health programs. Healthcare providers are then able to prescribe apps that meet the requirements for...

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