Express Scripts improves patient access to digital health solutions
Press releases may be edited for formatting or style | December 12, 2019
Health IT
Primary Care
Propeller Health digital health programs for asthma and COPD
These solutions engage with patients in a variety of ways, for example:
Allowing a pharmacist or nurse to remotely monitor a patient's use of a drug therapy
Synching to diagnostic devices that provide patients or their caregivers with vital information, like blood sugar or blood pressure, and alerts them to potential concerns
Offering virtual personal coaching from a health or wellness professional
Provide virtual support from a patient's peer
Express Scripts reviewed more than 70 digital health products for this first round of the formulary, in a four-stage process that tested each product for:
Clinical effectiveness
User experience
Security and privacy compliance
Value and affordability
"The Express Scripts Digital Health Formulary is an important and necessary pathway that will help ensure people with chronic disease can access clinically proven digital health solutions," said David Van Sickle, CEO and co-founder of Propeller Health. "We have carefully developed our technology over nine years to deliver safe and effective care to people with chronic respiratory disease, and inclusion on the Express Scripts Digital Health Formulary is a recognition of the value we provide to patients and plans."
Making Digital Health Easy and Reliable
With more than 300,000 digital products on the market today, it can be overwhelming to figure out which one is best for a specific condition. Currently, employers and health plans offer digital health programs to their members without a common review process, a way to obtain the best value, or an ability to easily integrate the product into their overall health benefit. Research from the National Business Group on Health shows that half of employers anticipate digital health solutions having a very significant impact on their members. However, the digital health industry itself is still relatively new: a quarter of digital health companies have less than two years of experience.
Access + Clinical Support
Digital health care is creating a sea change for pharmacists, allowing them to expand their roles to counsel patients on how they can use a digital health product or program to achieve their health goals.
For example, in just one year, pulmonary remote monitoring with the Propeller Health program – in concert with Express Scripts pulmonary specialist pharmacist support – led to improvements in symptoms, an 82% decrease in use of rescue inhalers, and a 10% increase in adherence to controller medications that help to prevent adverse asthma symptoms and exacerbations.
These solutions engage with patients in a variety of ways, for example:
Allowing a pharmacist or nurse to remotely monitor a patient's use of a drug therapy
Synching to diagnostic devices that provide patients or their caregivers with vital information, like blood sugar or blood pressure, and alerts them to potential concerns
Offering virtual personal coaching from a health or wellness professional
Provide virtual support from a patient's peer
Express Scripts reviewed more than 70 digital health products for this first round of the formulary, in a four-stage process that tested each product for:
Clinical effectiveness
User experience
Security and privacy compliance
Value and affordability
"The Express Scripts Digital Health Formulary is an important and necessary pathway that will help ensure people with chronic disease can access clinically proven digital health solutions," said David Van Sickle, CEO and co-founder of Propeller Health. "We have carefully developed our technology over nine years to deliver safe and effective care to people with chronic respiratory disease, and inclusion on the Express Scripts Digital Health Formulary is a recognition of the value we provide to patients and plans."
Making Digital Health Easy and Reliable
With more than 300,000 digital products on the market today, it can be overwhelming to figure out which one is best for a specific condition. Currently, employers and health plans offer digital health programs to their members without a common review process, a way to obtain the best value, or an ability to easily integrate the product into their overall health benefit. Research from the National Business Group on Health shows that half of employers anticipate digital health solutions having a very significant impact on their members. However, the digital health industry itself is still relatively new: a quarter of digital health companies have less than two years of experience.
Access + Clinical Support
Digital health care is creating a sea change for pharmacists, allowing them to expand their roles to counsel patients on how they can use a digital health product or program to achieve their health goals.
For example, in just one year, pulmonary remote monitoring with the Propeller Health program – in concert with Express Scripts pulmonary specialist pharmacist support – led to improvements in symptoms, an 82% decrease in use of rescue inhalers, and a 10% increase in adherence to controller medications that help to prevent adverse asthma symptoms and exacerbations.
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