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The high acceptance of the “Corona-Warn-App” (the German app for contract tracing during the COVID-19 pandemic that was launched in the summer of 2020) with > 12 million downloads in the first week (representing a more successful launch than Pokémon Go [statista 2016]) and > 26 million by the spring of 2021, indicates that the public discourse and reality are currently divergent. While media concerns about data protection and security are being pitched against rapid adoption of DiGA and older people are often written off for their lack of user skills for DiGA, we belive that a majority of statutorily insured individuals are broadly open-minded towards DiGA. This thesis is confirmed by data from surveys (see, for example, bitkom 2020). For many patients, two things seem to be particularly important: digital offerings must convey their benefits clearly and in an appealing form, and the protection of health data must be explicitly guaranteed.

However, the attitude of their doctors and psychotherapists is also likely to be decisive for patients. If healthcare providers explicitly recommend and prescribe a DiGA, patient groups beyond early adopters will also start to use DiGA.