ICT&health June 7, 2022
Artur Olesch

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...

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