Background: Digital therapeutics (DTx) are therapeutic interventions driven by software and directly provided to patients, allowing them to manage their health with ease in any setting. A growing interest in DTx has spurred a…
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Topics covered: Shifts in digital therapeutics companies’ business models: from prescription-only to B2C,Impact of VR on decreasing opioid use in pain management, thoughts about VR and psychedelics since both approaches leverage altered states of…
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The MedCity News editorial team asked a variety of healthcare leaders attending the HLTH conference in Las Vegas last week the burning question of the day: What areas within digital health will see consolidation…
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What You Should Know: – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has formed a new Digital Health Advisory Committee to help the agency explore the complex, scientific and technical issues related to digital…
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FDA creates a nine-member Digital Health Advisory Committee that will advise it on topics such as AI, augmented and virtual reality, digital therapeutics, wearables, and remote patient monitoring technology.
Nominations will be accepted…
Digital care management platform Sidekick Health announced it acquired Hamburg-based aidhere, a prescription digital therapeutic for people with obesity. Sidekick develops personalized digital therapeutics and programs for chronic and lifestyle disease management, ranging from diabetes…
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Virgin Pulse, a mobile-first employee wellness and engagement company, announced its intent to merge with HealthComp, a benefits and analytics platform, to create a technology and data-enabled healthcare service for employers. The reported $3 billion…
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Perspectives on the digital therapeutics industry tend to reveal the bias of the prognosticator as a glass-half-full optimist or glass-half-empty pessimist. Not enough clinical data vs. inadequate payer reimbursement. Many of the apps produced…
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The Access to Prescription Digital Therapeutics Act, initially introduced in the U.S. Senate in 2022 and reintroduced in March of this year, aims to amend the Social Security Act to provide Medicare and Medicaid…
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Accelerated innovation is affecting health care in several ways. For instance, it’s increasingly important to offer services and monitoring to patients in the home, because those interventions are key to managing chronic conditions as…
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