Medicare’s physician fee schedule includes billing codes for digital therapeutics for the first time. Stakeholders say these codes could help turn around reimbursement challenges weighing on the entire digital medicines sector.
Click Therapeutics is acquiring the assets of Better Therapeutics two months after that digital therapeutics developer announced it would lay off all employees and shut down. Better’s main asset is AspyreRx, an FDA-authorized mobile app for type 2 diabetes.
The future looks bright for the integrated specialty pharmacy model – for health systems, providers, and most importantly, for patients.
Otsuka Pharmaceutical is launching a subsidiary that will commercialize its digital therapeutic Rejoyn — as well as other digital therapeutics and connected health products down the line. Last month, Rejoyn became the first FDA-cleared digital therapeutic for patients with depression.
Regardless of the path to market they ultimately take, DTx companies must be poised to harness and deploy data and information that can prove their products’ economic value. Without it, the innovative treatments that they produce will continue to struggle to find success.
I look at non-pharmacological approaches like digital therapeutics as having the potential to give someone like me living with chronic pain everything I need to make a healthy recovery: access to digital treatments and clinicians, to community, coaching, and navigation services.
Digital therapeutics have shown how therapy can be delivered effectively through a digital interface, but the bankruptcy of Pear Therapeutics raised questions about whether these technologies can be commercially successful. A panel at the MedCity News INVEST Digital Health conference discussed the promise and pitfalls of these emerging technologies.
Hear executives from Quantum Health, Surescripts, EY, Clinical Architecture and Personify Health share their views on digital transformation in healthcare.
Demand is increasing, yet many payers are still hesitant to cover them – in large part thanks to laws that govern coverage, a lack of clarity regarding coverage approaches, and questions regarding evidence generation for these solutions.
At the HLTH conference last week, MedCity News' editorial team interviewed 11 health leaders from a variety of organizations to get a sense of which areas within healthcare will see consolidation over the next 12 months.
Digital therapeutics will be one of the topics discussed at INVEST Digital Health scheduled for October 26 at Health Wildcatters headquarters in Pegasus Park in Dallas. Register today!
Digital therapeutics developer Click Therapeutics is partnering with Indivior to develop a mobile app for substance use disorder. Indivior is now Click’s third development partner, following deals with Boehringer Ingelheim and Otsuka Pharmaceutical.
Closing cancer health equity gaps require medical breakthroughs made possible by new funding approaches.
Pear Therapeutics was once regarded as a digital therapeutics pioneer, but its spiral into bankruptcy has the industry searching for the best path forward. While some favor going direct to consumers, others say the solution is in generating more robust clinical trial data to persuade hesitant payers.
One of the fastest-growing frontiers of healthcare is Digital Therapeutics (DTx), which utilizes clinically tested software to prevent, treat, and manage a growing range of medical conditions. During Covid-19, governing agencies loosened regulatory requirements and increased incentives for DTx. Fortunately, this propelled innovation, and transitioned DTx from up-and-coming to a high-demand field. The goal was […]
The challenge of introducing a novel therapy is nothing new. It has been done again and again, but always from a foundation of compelling evidence…gathered through a rigorous scientific approach that demonstrates quality, safety, efficacy, and a favorable balance of benefits and risks.
Paris-based Sofinnova Partners announced last week that it has launched a new strategy aimed at investing in a new breed of startups that straddle the lines between data and biology.
CMS recently established a unique code for AppliedVR’s flagship product, marking the first time a digital therapeutic or immersive therapeutic has ever been placed in an existing benefit category. The eight-week program is a physician-prescribed solution that allows patients to manage their chronic lower back pain without opioids from the comfort of their own home.