The challenges facing the healthcare industry means that there is an increasing need to provide value-based care and to deliver treatment using more effective and efficient methods. Digital Therapeutics (DTx) is one area of technology-based healthcare that is beginning to provide the tools necessary to deliver effective treatments using less-resource intense processes.
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Digital therapeutics empower patients, healthcare providers, and payers with intelligent and accessible tools for addressing a wide range of conditions through high-quality, safe, and effective data-driven interventions.
For many years there have only been a small number of DTx technologies that have truly offered the standard of evidence necessary to provide a non-pharmaceutical treatment alternative for the conditions they are designed for. However, recent years have seen a surge in the development of evidenced-based technologies that offer a true digital intervention option for clinical treatment.
Certain medical specialities including mental health and diabetes care lend themselves particularly well to the use of digital interventions and there is a raft of well-proven solutions available in these areas.
However, with healthcare organisations increasingly looking to establish a digital-first approach to patient treatment more, and more digital interventions are being considered as first-step approaches to many common conditions. Things like sleep problems, smoking cessation, dietary changes can all now be approached with a digital mindset that empowers patients to take control of their own treatment pathways, and reduces the intensity of demand for face-to-face healthcare services.
These are exciting and transformative times for healthcare, and in this issue, we look at the opportunities going forward that exist for digital therapeutics, particularly in the mental health space. We also consider what is needed for the reinvention of care pathways that will allow healthcare providers to take advantage of this digital-first approach towards treatment.
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Table of Contents
4 Editors Comments
6 Prescribe Software for Mental Health Treatment
7 Telemedicine: A Tipping Point for Healthcare’s Digital Transformation
8 Virtual Mental Health in our Post-Pandemic World
10 Is Patient Centred Tech more Important than Ever?
12-22 Industry News
23 Upcoming Events
24 Healthcare CIOs Need to Hone their Focus to Accelerate Innovation in the Post-pandemic Environment
26 Collaboration is Key to Digitally Empowering Patients
27 The Rise of eHealth: How Cellular Connectivity is Reducing the Strain on Healthcare Systems
29 EPMAs: How to Implement at Pace During a Global Pandemic
