Digital Health Collaborative

The Digital Health Collaborative is raising the bar for evidence and value in the adoption of digital health technologies.

The Digital Health Collaborative is a group of leading healthcare and consumer organizations that share a commitment to “raising the bar” for evidence and value in digital health technology.

Through research, grant funding, and regular convenings, the Digital HCollaborative advances the development and scaling of evidence-based, efficient, and equitable digital health solutions to improve outcomes and lower costs.

The Collaborative is supported by the Peterson Health Technology Institute (PHTI), an independent nonprofit that evaluates digital health solutions to determine their clinical- and cost-effectiveness for payers, providers, investors and others. The Digital Health Collaborative is not involved in PHTI’s digital health technology evaluations or assessment decisions.

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Members

The Collaborative includes representatives from leading healthcare and consumer organizations who are committed to “raising the bar” for evidence and value in digital health technology.

AARP
AHIP
Alliance for Connected Care
Alliance of Community Health Plans (ACHP)
American Medical Association (AMA)
American Telemedicine Association (ATA)
Center for Innovation & Value Research
Consumer Technology Association (CTA)
Digital Medicine Society (DiMe)
Digital Therapeutics Alliance (DTA)

HLTH Foundation
International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement (ICHOM)
National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions
The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA)
National Health Council (NHC)
RockHealth.org
United States of Care

Digital Health Collaborative members do not participate in the assessment process.

Core Principles

Innovation

As leading digital health companies, innovative, patient-centered technology solutions will be essential to the future of healthcare.

Evidence

Health technology companies should generate robust, reliable evidence about their benefits to patients and purchasers.

Clinical Benefit

Digital health technologies should deliver clinical benefits on-par or better than traditional care delivery models, including improving access, equity, and convenience.

Efficiency

Health technology should support more efficient care delivery and administration to drive system-wide savings.

Scale

Through partnerships for health, high-value technology should be widely disseminated and adopted to drive improved health system performance.

Delivering Impact

Collaborative activities include a national purchaser survey, grantmaking, and convenings.

Convenings & Communications: Collaborative members meet bi-annually to advance a research and thought leadership agenda to advance the field, receive communications specific to members, and determine opportunities to cross-promote and amplify relevant resources
Annual Summit: Collaborative members can elevate and amplify impact to the broader healthcare ecosystem through participation in PHTI’s invite-only Summit
Research & Impact Fund: The Collaborative will create a research agenda to support the development and adoption of evidence-based, cost-effective digital health solutions, disbursing grant funding through a PHTI-funded Research and Impact Fund.
Annual Survey: The Collaborative will commission an annual industry baseline survey to gauge national digital health purchasing trends

Research & Impact Fund

Select grant funding is being provided through the Digital Health Collaborative Research & Impact Fund for mission-aligned research and program initiatives.

American Telemedicine Association

The American Telemedicine Association will use funding to enhance their U.S. Digital Infrastructure Disparities Score (DIS) and heat map tools with data sets and visualization capabilities to highlight key infrastructure gaps and identify specific interventions that support actionable, measurable, and accountable deployment. These improvements will enable data-informed decisions and targeted allocation of resources to improve access to digital services and reduce healthcare disparities.

Center for Innovation & Value Research

The Center for Innovation and Value Research will collaborate with PHTI on patient interviews, as well as develop a toolkit that enables healthcare systems, payers, and purchasers to assess equity and patient-centered economic impacts when making digital health purchasing decisions.

Digital Medicine Society (DiMe)

PHTI has partnered with DiMe and other leading industry organizations to define how Integrated Evidence Plans can be developed, optimized, and used to support the regulatory and commercial success of digital health products on an accelerated timeline.