Digital Health & Telehealth
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AI Summary — Last 7 Days
Digital health is moving deeper into VBC infrastructure, but the week’s news underscored a widening gap between utilization and sustainable economics: NCQA launched a Digital Health Engagement Accreditation Program to create a common quality framework for purchasers and vendors, while health systems continue reporting that virtual care growth often fails to cover operating costs. At the same time, remote care management is consolidating and scaling—ChartSpan acquired Validic to expand RPM/data connectivity, and Cadence raised $100M with Duke Health and Texas Health Resources collaborations—signaling payer/provider demand for longitudinal, tech-enabled chronic care models, even as evidence remains mixed, including a nurse-delivered telehealth diabetes trial that underperformed in fee-for-service settings. For ACOs and Medicare/Medicaid risk-bearing entities, the strategic tension is shifting from “telehealth access” to whether digital programs can prove engagement, outcomes, attribution-ready data flows, and total-cost-of-care impact under value-based payment.
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