As Promised - Starting to Answer Questions after being at Disney

I wanted to start loading in some answers/feedback to the recently closed request for information (RFI) on Digital Health. I will start with the last 4 points, and then move into the first 4 over the course of the next few weeks.

Point 5 Prompt - Tool and training needs: Information about the current technological tools, equipment, and infrastructure needs of community health workers and other community-based health providers. Descriptions about what is needed to train and/or certify community health organizations and workers on the use of digital health technologies for their work are also welcome.

At Banner Health, we currently utilize a middleware (Xealth) to act as a technical bridge between Digital Health applications and our enterprise Electronic Health Record. This permits our clinical care teams to prescribepatients the apps on our Digital Formulary. We believe that this not only allows us to govern the types of Digital Health products we recommend for enterprise use, but that it promotes a seamless transfer in coordination of care between the care teams and patients. That said, there is a heavy education and training need to prepare both groups to accept these types of intervention tools as being evidence-based and clinically useful. We anticipate that acceptance of this type of treatment methodology will continue to gain traction as more digitally-native patients enter their prime healthcare-utilization years, and as the nation evolves new delivery models in the wake of the pandemic.