The German Fast Track Toward Reimbursement of Digital Health Applications: Opportunities and Challenges for Manufacturers, Healthcare Providers, and People With Diabetes.

Background: Digital health applications (DiGA) supporting the management of diabetes are among the most commonly available digital health technologies. However, transparent quality assurance of DiGA and clinical proof of a positive healthcare effect is often missing, which creates skepticism of some stakeholders regarding the usage and reimbursement of these applications.

Methods: This article reviews the recently established fast-track integration of DiGA in the German reimbursement market, with emphasis on the current impact for manufacturers, healthcare providers, and people with diabetes.

POLLAR: Impact of air POLLution on Asthma and Rhinitis; a European Institute of Innovation and Technology Health (EIT Health) project.

Allergic rhinitis (AR) is impacted by allergens and air pollution but interactions between air pollution, sleep and allergic diseases are insufficiently understood. POLLAR (Impact of air POLLution on sleep, Asthma and Rhinitis) is a project of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT Health). It will use a freely-existing application for AR monitoring that has been tested in 23 countries (the , iOS and Android, 17,000 users, TLR8).

[Availability of antiretroviral agents in the city: a 1-year assessment in the Lille metropolitan area].

Objectives: Dispensing antiretroviral drugs in private pharmacies has been allowed in France since October 1997. One year after this measure was implemented, we conducted a survey of patients and pharmacists in the Lille metropolitan area to assess its impact.

Method: Structured interviews with a representative sample of private pharmacists and HIV infected patients in the Lille metropolitan area were carried out.

Tolerance, compliance and psychological consequences of post-exposure prophylaxis in health-care workers.

Our objectives were to evaluate tolerance and compliance of post-exposure triple therapy in health-care workers (HCWs) by retrospective observational study. Structured telephone interview of HCWs identified through data from antiretroviral prescribing centres. Twenty HCWs who received triple prophylaxis were identified over one year.