This Issue Brief explores opportunities that technology-enabled care (TEC) offers to help meet patient and provider needs for high-valued coordinated care to improve health outcomes. It explores literature surrounding existing available TEC options, as well as economic and payment issues that influence whether this is taken up.
TEC can include digital tools and software solutions, such as artificial intelligence (AI), telehealth and virtual platforms, wearable devices, and remote monitoring technologies. These technologies have the potential to streamline clinical practice, as well as enhance diagnosis and treatment. There is evidence of success in cardiometabolic, musculoskeletal, and mental health conditions. However, there is limited evidence on the long-term impacts of TEC, and the wide variety of TEC implementations remain limitations in the existing literature. This gap provides opportunities for payers and health care systems to test new payment models, such as outcomes-aligned payments, to leverage TEC interventions, paired with financial incentives, to encourage the adoption of TEC to improve patients’ health and health outcomes.
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