ICT&health June 7, 2022
Digital platforms developed with physician input with clinically proven benefits for patients are a whole new quality of treatment. One example is the recently announced collaboration between a startup, Sidekick, and a pharmaceutical company, Pfizer. Will digital DTx become a standard in a few years?
In digital therapeutics (DTx), it is not the chemical molecule (drug) but coaching, behavioural monitoring, data analysis, and real-time measurement of progress that become part of the therapeutic plan.
DTx are much more than ordinary health apps – they are meticulously designed platforms tested for outcomes and economic benefits for the payer.
A new subcategory of DTx involves those known as PDT – Prescription Digital Therapeutics. Doctors in Germany (and soon France) can prescribe mobile...