MedCity News May 5, 2024
Jennifer C. Goldsack

As we enter the digital era of healthcare at scale, we must redefine how we care for people … and how we evaluate that care.

In late March, PHTI (Peterson Health Technology Institute) raised the bar for all of us working to digitize healthcare when they issued their first evidence assessment reporting the evaluation of digital diabetes management tools that support improved glycemic control in people with type 2 diabetes—or claiming to.

The head-scratcher here is that despite claiming to assess a technology – and despite using an assessment framework purpose-built to evaluate digital health technologies – the report did not evaluate any technology products. Rather, it evaluated eight companies providing well-established care pathways virtually (i.e. healthcare services).

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