Fierce Healthcare March 25, 2024
Heather Landi

A new analysis pours cold water on the effectiveness of widely used digital diabetes management solutions, stirring up discussion about how best to evaluate the growing market of digital health tools.

The blistering report, released by the Peterson Health Technology Institute (PHTI), concluded that diabetes monitoring apps “do not deliver meaningful clinical benefits, and result in increased healthcare spending.”

“When these digital diabetes management tools launched more than a decade ago, they promised to improve health outcomes for people with diabetes and deliver savings to payers. Based on the scientific evidence, these solutions have fallen short, and it is time to move toward the next generation of innovation,” said Caroline Pearson, executive director of the PHTI, in a statement...

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