2023-08-12 18:53:41
Insight Innovation
By September 2022, health insurance companies had prescribed just 164,000 health apps.
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Düsseldorf Jonas Schmidt is depressed. In the spring of 2021 he was getting worse and worse. “I was afraid that I would lose myself again,” he says. The reason was the corona pandemic, the man from Bremen suffered greatly from the isolation.
Schmidt sought help on the Internet. Because the 26-year-old was able to meet his therapist much less often than before and group sessions were canceled altogether. He found the Selfapy app, which he got prescribed and used for 12 weeks. And indeed: “I felt better afterwards,” he says today.
Apps like Selfapy are called “digital health applications”, Diga for short. They are available for numerous diseases, such as anxiety disorders, obesity or back pain. Mood diaries, exercises, nutrition tips: With apps, patients should get to know their illnesses better and train themselves to behave in a healthier way. The Federal Office for Medical Devices and Drugs checks every app before doctors prescribe it and the health insurers reimburse the costs.
Disease is also an economic factor
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