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
CMS’s ACCESS Model in Context
In this report, the Peterson Center on Healthcare synthesizes findings from the work of the Peterson Health Technology Institute (PHTI) to examine how rigorous evaluations of health technologies laid the groundwork for broader outcome-based payment models, such as ACCESS.
Evolving Remote Monitoring
The Peterson Center on Healthcare synthesized three PHTI evaluations of digital tools to treat diabetes, hypertension, and musculoskeletal disorders, covering the conditions associated with the majority of spending and utilization for remote monitoring services. This report highlights recommendations for payers and providers to align coverage and reimbursement for remote monitoring services to clinical value, ensure access to high-impact remote monitoring services, and improve data collection of remote monitoring services.
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.
Center Responds to CMS Proposed Rule on Medicare Physician Fee Schedule
The Center offers recommendations to align Medicare payments with clinical value, advance digital mental health treatment, and promote high-value digital health tools.
Center Responds to RFI on Modernizing the Medicare Digital Health Ecosystem
The Center offers recommendations to modernize Medicare’s digital ecosystem, promote high-value health technology, and leverage transparency for better care.
Can eConsults reduce commercial health spending? Learnings from an Arkansas pilot study
The Center has published learnings from its Arkansas pilot study on eConsults.