📢 NEW PUBLICATION ALERT!
A new scoping review has just been published in Value in Health:
“Mapping Methodologies for Economic Evaluation of Digital Health Technologies: A Scoping Review.”
✍️ Authors: Ana Rita Santos, Francisco von Hafe, Filipa Sampaio, Ana Rita Londral, and Julian Perelman
This review provides the first comprehensive synthesis of existing frameworks used to evaluate the economic value of digital health technologies (DHTs) — an area where methodological clarity has long lagged behind rapid technological innovation.
🔍 Key insights:
• The team identified 26 frameworks, revealing significant heterogeneity across evaluation methods
• Major gaps include missing time horizons (81%) and undefined evaluation perspectives (73%)
• Cost-utility and budget impact analyses are frequently used, but often without justification
• Some frameworks are beginning to integrate lifecycle approaches, adaptive designs, and risk-based tiering
• Findings highlight the urgent need for standardized, context-sensitive guidance to support informed decision-making on adoption, reimbursement, and scaling of DHTs
🎯 Bottom line: Current evaluation frameworks are not fully adapted to the unique characteristics of digital health technologies. More flexible, lifecycle-aligned models are needed to ensure that health systems can assess value for money in a rapidly evolving digital landscape.
🔗 Read the full paper here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jval.2025.09.012