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When the Digital Care Act (DVG) came into force, the “prescription app” was introduced for patients in the German healthcare system.
This means some 73 million persons insured by the statutory health insurers are entitled to treatment with a DiGA. somnio can be prescribed by doctors and psychotherapists. The costs are covered by all statutory and many private health insurers.
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prescription process?
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About 35% of adults in Germany have occasional problems sleeping, while 7-10% of the adult population has clinically relevant insomnia.
The S3 guideline recommends cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT-I) as the first line treatment of non-organic insomnia in adults. In reality, only very few of those affected receive this highly effective treatment.
Every month, the German National Digital Health Care Association (SVDGV) offers CME-certified training courses on “Digital Health Applications (DiGA) in Practice” and on “New approaches in the treatment of insomnia”. The courses take 90 minutes and are worth 3 CME points if the user passes the learning success test
In addition, we offer the somnio forum at least twice a month for physicians and psychotherapists who want to learn more about the content, the study status and the prescription process for somnio. The forum somnio takes place interactively via Zoom and takes about 30 minutes. It is an opportunity to ask questions and exchange ideas with peers.
In the registration you can choose a suitable date and your desired format. You will then receive an invitation by e-mail with the dial-in link to the event.
Participation for both types of event is free-of-charge.
Please take into account that all events are held in German.
Find all dates of upcoming events below.
Note: A statutory health insurance company is not entitled to refuse the prescription of the DiGA somnio by means of a duly completed health insurance prescription (template 16) due to a lack of confirmation of the diagnosis. Both the indication (F51.0) and the duration of use (90 days) are contained in the PZN (16898724).
As an alternative to the regulation via the PVS, download a template for the diagnosis verification using the following buttons:
For more guidance on how to prescribe digital health applications, visit DiGA Info. There you will find, for example, a list of instructions on the prescription process for common practice management software.
As an alternative to the regulation via the PVS, download a template for the diagnosis verification using the following buttons:
can also use the health insurance prescription template 16 to prescribe a digital health application (DiGA) (§ 33a Paragraph 1 SGB V). Health insurance prescriptions can be requested from the appropriate Association of Statutory health insurer Physicians or from the publishers responsible for them. The number 999999999 (9×9) can be entered as the doctor identification number.
If you have any questions, please contact medical@mementor.de
find out first whether their private health insurer will cover the costs. If required, we can send a cost estimate (request tomedical@mementor.de).
The insured parties can buy somnio at http://somn.io/buy and will receive an access code by email.
In the medical report you can see the patient data during the consultation:
Ask your patient to generate the 8-digit access code under menu point “medical report” and to send it to you.
Open the medical report under app.somn.io/doc and enter your name and the access code. (When you enter your name, the patient will know your identity).
Once the patient has confirmed your access query in the program, you can see the evaluation.
Summarized on 32 pages, the somnio magazine provides information about the clinical picture of insomnia, highlights the aspects of a DiGA and offers everything you need to know about the app somnio .
Test access & information material for specialists
Specialists (doctors and psychotherapists) can apply for test access and information material for their patients here.
(Please note that all information material is only available in German)
Information material
Please fill out the form only once. If you do not get access directly or if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us by email . If you order flyers, you will receive them with the next mailing – usually within a week.
somnio is the first and, to date, the only digital health app (DiGA) for sleep medicine approved by the German Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices (BfArM). This means it can be prescribed by doctors and psychotherapists.
somnio can be used for patients with non-organic insomnia (F51.0). Patients with this diagnosis have been suffering for a longer period from sleep onset and sleep maintenance insomnia several times a week and thus feel that the sleep problems affect how they feel during the day.
somnio is not recommended for use by patients with bipolar affective disorder (F31) or epilepsy (G40) and patients under 18. Other physical or mental diseases such as depression or anxiety disorder are notexclusion criteria for prescribing somnio.
Like all digital health apps (DiGA), somnio is available on prescription (template 16). On the health insurance prescription, the PZN 16898724and the name somnio must be entered. The diagnosis and prescription period do not have to be entered on the prescription.
Alternatively, somnio can be prescribed by means of a proof of diagnosis. Download a template for patients insured by a statutory health insurer and a template for patients by a private health insurer here.
somnio can be prescribed by doctors and psychotherapists from all specialisms in Germany.
The “issuing of a first prescription of somnio” can be invoiced with the GOP 01470 (18 points). The “Evaluation and progress control associated with the application somnio” can be invoiced with the GOP 01471 (64 points). This can either be done verbally or with a printed program report of the patient or with the monitor (app.somn.io/doc) Remuneration of time expenditure does not affect your prescription budget (extra-budgetary).
DiGA are extra-budgetary and are therefore not charged to your drug or therapeutic budget.
To analyse the patient’s progress data, you can use the patient’s printed report or view patient data via the medical report (see below). Alternatively, you can conduct the meeting verbally. Billing with GOP 01471 is possible with all variants.
The medical report can be used during the consultation. It works as follows:
1. Patient’s access code
Ask your patient to generate the 8-digit access code under menu point “medical report” and to send it to you.
2. Start medical report and request access
Open the medical report under app.somn.io/doc and enter your name and the access code. (When you enter your name, the patient will know your identity).
3. Wait for confirmation
Once the patient has confirmed your access query in the program, you can see the evaluation.
The use of the medical report is voluntary.
Yes, a psychological psychotherapy can be supported by somnio.
Yes, this is of course possible without further ado. Patients can also contact their health insurance company and request another license code, since the indication is already given. The new license code is then entered by the patient in their profile to extend the license, so that the previous progress is retained.
The RCT at the University of Zurich randomised patients with a diagnosis of “insomnia” into a treatment group (use of somnio) and a waiting list control group. In the treatment group, insomnia symptoms reduced by 50% over the treatment period, while there was no significant change in the control group. Sleep onset was faster and waking in the night was significantly reduced in the treatment group. The treatment effect was stable after 12 months (follow-up survey) After treatment with somnio, 56% of participants in the treatment group had achieved remission compared to 11% in the control group (remission criterion = ISI score < 8), this corresponds to an NNT of 2.23.
This study is available here.
The DiGA data storage is subject to strict requirements, which is why somnio, for example, does not use any American cloud providers (such as GCP, AWS) and only stores personal data in Germany.
The data are not passed on to third parties, even to the health insurer. Users have data ownership and can independently request that their data be deleted.
All relevant information is available on BfArM’s DiGA index: diga.bfarm.de
As a psychotherapist you can enter the fictitious doctor identification number 999999999 (9×9). By the way: You can also order template 16 health insurance prescriptions from your health insurer. If you have any problems ordering the health insurance prescriptions, we can send you a small number to tide you over.
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