AMA August 1, 2023
By Tanya Albert Henry

The U.S. surgeon general has warned about the baleful health effects of social media on youth, often consumed with an endless scroll on smartphone apps. Now these very same devices may carry part of the treatment for mental health and other conditions, through digital therapeutics.

What exactly are digital therapeutics? They are not the wellness apps physicians and patients may first think of, which don’t make medical claims.

Digital therapeutics deliver interventions directly to patients using evidence-based, clinically evaluated software to help treat, manage and prevent a broad spectrum of behavioral, mental and physical diseases and disorders, explained Lani Hessen during a recent AMA webinar.

“These products can be used independently. They can be used in tandem...

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Topics: Apps, Conferences / Podcast, Digital Health, Mental Health, Patient / Consumer, Provider, Technology, Trends
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