The New Buzz: These Are The Top Examples Of Digital Therapeutics

Digital Therapeutics or DTx in short is one of the latest buzzwords in the digital health ecosystem. Unlike others (NFT, Metaverse just to name a few) however, we see DTx as a meaningful trend that has the capacity to bring short-term, substantial improvements in personalised healthcare.  What is Digital Therapeutics? The definition by the Digital Therapeutics Alliance, the main professional hub is:  “Digital therapeutics (DTx) deliver evidence-based therapeutic interventions that are driven by high-quality software programs to prevent, manage, or treat a medical disorder or disease. They are used independently or in concert with medications, devices, or other therapies to optimise patient care and health outcomes.” In everyday English: DTx delivers evidence-based, clinically backed solutions to manage and/or improve health conditions via software and/or other digital health technologies.  You can download the latest, official DTx Value Assessment & Integration Guide here.  What is it good for?  The number of existing DTx solutions is constantly on the rise, the Alliance has a product library, but even they admit that the inventory is not complete. As of now, there are several healthcare segments that seem to utilise the potential the most, diabetes care and mental health apps are well represented among the applications, some of which are like certain drugs: subscription-only. Apart from these ‘established’ segm...
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