DiGA - Digital Health Applications

Apps on prescription

Digital health apps, or DiGA for short, can help in the treatment of diseases and support patients in their self-determined health-promoting lifestyle. Doctors can prescribe these medical apps to their patients. For DiGA to be recognized as a health insurance benefit, it must demonstrate either a medical benefit or an improvement in the course of treatment, in addition to certain quality features.

Proven medical applications

Only medical applications that offer positive care effects or structural improvements for patients are approved. The Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices reviews the applications for safety, functional suitability, quality, data security and data protection.

A list of all approved health applications can be found on the website diga.bfarm.de.

To the list of approved health applications

How to use apps on prescription

Please submit the doctor's prescription (the prescription) of the prescribed DiGA.
You will then receive your personal code for activation.
Once you have downloaded the app, enter this code in the app and you are ready to go.