advancing health technology
The Challenge
Health technology can improve outcomes and affordability, but patients, providers, payers, and investors are struggling to understand what works.
Digital health technologies have enormous potential to revolutionize healthcare delivery, advancing better outcomes, enhancing the patient experience, and promoting equity– all while lowering costs.
However, as digital health tools aim to replace and augment traditional healthcare, there is limited evidence supporting the value of many new products entering the market.
Our Solution
Independent, credible, evidence-based guidance to identify promising new digital health solutions that improve health and lower costs.
The Peterson Center on Healthcare supports innovative solutions that have the potential to transform the U.S. healthcare system. Expanding the use of new health technologies that are proven to work can lead to improved outcomes, enhanced patient experience, and provide better access to equitable, affordable care.
Our Projects
Signature Initiative
Peterson Health Technology Institute
The Peterson Health Technology Institute (PHTI), an initiative of the Peterson Center on Healthcare, provides rigorous, evidence-based assessments of innovative digital health technologies to improve health and lower costs. As patients, providers, payers and investors struggle to evaluate the efficacy of new digital health technologies, PHTI helps close that information gap, accelerating the adoption of high-value technology in healthcare.
Bipartisan Policy Center Reports
As telehealth and remote patient monitoring usage by Medicare beneficiaries soared during the pandemic, policymakers needed evidence to understand how these types of virtual care were impacting the practice of medicine and Medicare beneficiary healthcare utilization patterns. The Center funded The Bipartisan Policy Center to conduct extensive research and Medicare data analysis to inform and shape telehealth and remote patient monitoring policies.
Evaluating the Effectiveness of eConsults
The Peterson Center on Healthcare collaborated with private and public partners to expand access to and reduce the cost of specialty care through eConsults. eConsults enable primary care providers to communicate electronically with specialists through a secure system to seek a specialist’s expert opinion about the appropriate diagnosis or treatment for a patient, promising more timely access to care and reduced costs.
Can eConsults reduce commercial health spending? Learnings from an Arkansas pilot study
The Center has published learnings from its Arkansas pilot study on eConsults.
New Report Finds That Digital Diabetes Management Tools Fail to Deliver Meaningful Health Benefits to Patients While Increasing Spending
Independent evaluation from Peterson Health Technology Institute recommends new directions for digital diabetes solutions.
Digital Health Tools for Diabetes Management and Virtual Musculoskeletal Care to Undergo Independent Evaluation
PHTI announced that its initial assessments will focus on remote patient monitoring for diabetes management and virtual musculoskeletal care.