ICT&health November 17, 2021
As we encourage patients to begin taking the initiative to care for themselves, we have seen terms like digital self-care, continuous care, the quantified self and e-patients, emerge within the healthcare industry (Fiske 2020). In recent years DTx have allowed patients to move beyond data collection and tracking, towards a more direct and efficient healthcare delivery paradigm.
When DTx products debuted, it was commonplace to see standardized CBT content across a pipeline of products, where a common set of CBT modules were customized for each intended use. This led to linear products with a static patient experience. It also limited a physician’s ability to re-prescribe the same product again in the future in hopes of a better outcome the second...