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Archived articles from Synergus RWE, kept for reference.
40 articles
Denmark Aims for "Digital First"
Denmark is one of the leading countries in Europe in the utility of digital health as an integral part of healthcare delivery. December 2023, an agreement was established to invest 500 Million DKK in the following…
France includes organisational benefits in the assessment of Digital solutions
In the LPPR process for Medical Devices, which also is applicable for therapeutic digital solutions, the focus would be on traditional outcomes, where these would be the most frequent: “mortality reduction in the short,…
France has the most extensive scope of reimbursement for digital solutions in Europe
With the creation of the fast-track solution for digital health (PECA) and the permanent pathway for remote monitoring (TLS), France has also clarified that Digital solutions with a therapeutic benefit should follow the…
France creates a permanent pathway for remote monitoring solutions
France has been a pioneer in the evaluation of how to find a way to utilize remote monitoring / telemedicine, including several pilot programs: 2009: Article 78 HPST law 2014: Article 36 LFSS (ETAPES experimentation)…
France launches fast-track process for reimbursement of digital solutions
France has a long history of testing different programs to include digital health in the healthcare. Inspired by the German DiGA solution, they are in the process to introduce a pathway for conditional reimbursement…
Reimbursement may not be the primary barrier for digital health!?
What can we learn from the critique of the insurance companies regarding the German DiGA experience? I am the first to recognize that there is a significant gap in most healthcare system regarding the process to…
Five digital solutions approved for temporary reimbursement in Germany – Up to 2000 €/year in reimbursement
Germany has launched a reimbursement process for digital solutions focused on the patient and with regulatory class I or IIa according to the MDR. If you are interested to learn more about the process, these recorded…
How will the payer view the value of a digital solution in Germany?
How will the payer view the value of a digital solution in Germany? Coming back after an intense and inspiring day in Heidelberg about the new regulation for reimbursement of digital health I am very encouraged to see…
Evaluation of assessment methodologies by HTA’s specific to Digital Health in Europe
We have initiated a project to evaluate the HTA methodologies specific to Digital Health solutions (DHS) in Europe. With the increasing use of DHS and the different characteristics they have compared to drugs and…
The French program for telemedicine / digital health – Analysis of development
Don’t miss our upcoming webinar about French Digital Health on February 19 th . The purpose of introduction of telemedicine by France government is not to replace the face-to-face medical procedures in the past, but to…
Understanding European Payer Readiness for Patient Centric Digital Health
As announced in a previous blog post, Synergus RWE initiated an internal project examining the readiness of reimbursement systems across Europe to support patient-centric digital health in Dementia / Alzheimer’s This…
Digital Health Strategic Insights - Selecting the right solution in the basket of options
This is the second blog in our series regarding strategic insights about the key-methodological aspects concerning the introduction of new digital solutions. In this second blog, we address the issue of selecting the…
Understanding the landscape of disease management tools in Heart Failure
As previously announced, we have started this project to evaluate innovative disease management tools in heart failure (HF) with the objective of bringing insights and further recommendations for decision-makers. You…
Digital Health – Are we wasting the potential?
We are starting a new blog-series related to the key-methodological aspects concerning the introduction of new digital solutions. In this first blog, we raise issues as to why we as an industry, need to engage in order…
New EU Guidance: App’s and Software solutions with therapeutic purpose will be in class 2a or higher – Time to align evidence development strategies for regulators and payers.
The recent release of the new EU guidance reinforces the role that software in many instances, will be classified as medical devices / IVDs (In Vitro Diagnostics) in a high-risk class. Refer to the details of this new…
Digital Solutions in Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) – More than 30 companies, have we missed any?
Since starting this project to identify different digital solutions that address Rheumatoid Arthritis, we have discovered some innovative solutions which are highlighted in this blogpost. In identifying these solutions,…
The use of Data-science in Oncology
This first blog post on the topic of ‘the use of data-science in oncology’ considers how rapidly data-science in oncology is evolving throughout the lifecycle of oncology drugs. The aim of this project / publication is…
Digital Solutions in Melanoma Cancer - Engaging the Patient
This is the fifth interim report from our current project on digital solutions in oncology engaging the patient. More details about the project can be found here . Through this work, we aim to share results based on our…
European payer readiness for patient-centric care: Case study of digital health in Dementia / Alzheimer’s
Early in 2019, Synergus RWE conducted an exploratory internal project analysing current digital health solutions for Dementia / Alzheimer’s disease. The primary objective of this project was to develop an understanding…
Digital Solutions in Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) – Project Introduction
During the recent HTAi meeting in Cologne, our CEO ( Mattias Kyhlstedt ) had the opportunity to discuss with an HTA organisation about the ongoing projects at Synergus RWE. These are projects that involve analysing…
Digital Solutions in Throat Cancer - Engaging the Patient
This is the fourth interim report from our current project on digital solutions in oncology engaging the patient. More details about the project can be found here . Through this work, we aim to share results based on…
Digital Solutions in Lung Cancer - Engaging the Patient
This is the third interim report from our current project about digital solutions in oncology engaging the patient. You can read more about the project here . Through this work, we will continue to share early results…
Digital solutions in Oncology engaging the patient - Interim report about breast cancer
This is the second interim report from our current project about digital solutions in oncology engaging the patient. You can read more about the project here: Project introduction First report about prostate cancer…
Digital solutions in Oncology engaging the patient - Interim report about prostate cancer
This is the first interim report from our current project about digital solutions in oncology engaging the patient. You can read more about the project here:…
Data Science in Oncology
The intersection between data science and oncology will increase in importance with precision medicine. We have launched a project to address this topic. Initially we aim to identify and map the companies in this…
Digital solutions in oncology engaging the patient
We are happy to announce the start of a project to analyze digital solutions in oncology engaging the patients. We are performing this project in collaboration with Abdulrahman Yahia. The aim of this 8-week project is…
Interim report – Digital solutions for mental health
We are excited to share an interim update of the on-going analysis of digital solutions for mental health. If you are interested in the topic, have a look at the interactive dash-board below which includes the 103…
Final report – Digital solutions in Alzheimer and Dementia
We are happy to share the result of an internal project we have done to analyse the digital solutions in Alzheimer and Dementia. The aim with the project was to evaluate if it was possible to create an overview of the…
Why should I care to engage in the project about Digital Solutions for Mental Health?
This blog is aiming towards the health companies which offer digital solutions for mental health. The objective is to encourage you to participate in a short survey we are carrying out in the project (it will take 5-10…
How will AI impact the healthcare system when applied to imaging?
AI is exciting and will impact many dimensions in healthcare. We are trying to understand how the technical ‘feature’ can be translated to change in the healthcare delivery. We have hypothesized the following scenarios:…
Managed entry agreements / Coverage with Evidence Development – The new home-run for device, diagnostic and digital health start-ups!?
With the evolving evidence requirements for the introduction of new technologies, I would suggest that we should evaluate how we see a successful journey for a start-up company. Historically, most of the start-ups we…
How E-health interventions are addressing and transforming mental health care?
One of the areas in which E-health has a particular potential in, is the ability to provide care for patient with different types of mental health. In this project we aim to analyze new innovative companies, primarily…
Interim update: Alzheimer / Dementia – Innovative Disease Management Tools
We have identified more than 50 companies that provide different solutions to improve how Dementia and Alzheimer is managed. Don’t miss the previous post about shifting the focus to the patient and the care giver. In…
6 E-health projects funded by G-BA in Germany (1,3-19,6 million €)
G-BA has an innovation fund that provides funding to specific projects. These are the 6 programs relating to e-health that they have provided funding for: ERIC – Enhanced Recovery after Intensive Care: 6.8 million €…
Introduction to e-health reimbursement in the Netherlands
With this blog post is a brief update about the pathway the Dutch Government did chose to accomplish a swift introduction of e-health in the healthcare environment. If you want to learn more, don’t miss the upcoming…
New project: Disruptive healthcare companies using AI and impact on healthcare delivery?
There are great hopes that new ways of using healthcare data in combination with artificial intelligence will drastically improve the delivery of health care in the future. Do we really understand what the change will…
Shifting focus to the patient and caregiver – Update regarding analysis of innovative disease management tools in Alzheimer
We are currently doing a project with the aim to analyse new companies which are developing disease management tools (DMT) of Alzheimer and Dementia. The objective of this project is to gain understanding in how these…
The Model for Assessment of Telemedicine (MAST) – Leveraging EUnetHTA framework to assess the value of e-health / telemedicine
This blog is to provide a brief background to the coming webinar by Dr Kristian Kidholm about the topic “HTA evaluation of e-health solutions ” based on the The Model for Assessment of Telemedicine (MAST). The MAST…
Examples of e-health and disease management reimbursement in France
Next week (31st of January) we have a webinar that will provide insights in how to establish reimbursement for e-health and disease management in France. This is a brief update about the two programs that exist, what…
The era of personalized medicine: when HEOR meets AI
Personalized medicine (or precision or stratified medicine as new terms introduced nowadays) is recently defined as: “Treatments targeted to the needs of individual patients on the basis of genetic, biomarker,…