Significance of Digital Therapeutics (Essay Sample)

Digital Therapeutics
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The technological era has cut across all sectors in the world, including the health sector. Such is witnessed in the development of digital therapeutics, which are evidence-based software that has been designed to redefine how some ailments can be managed while at the same time treating several health conditions by enhancing or replacing conventional therapies. This approach is considered digital because it utilizes electronic devices such as smartphones to deliver care. Digital therapeutics (DTx) are used either independently or together with other medications, devices to optimize patient care and health outcomes. Such therapies help patients take part in their treatment as they help them make behavioral changes and provide caregivers with real-time therapeutic breakthroughs.
Suppose the healthcare system successfully integrates new patients data into physician practices. In that case, it may improve in-person sessions, consequently making health care more efficient and more informed because of utilizing real-time data as provided by digital therapies (Siwicki, 2019). However, like any other treatment techniques and approaches, DTx products must be tested and reviewed by regulatory bodies like FDA to ensure there are as minimal risks or non as possible, efficacy and that they serve the purpose they are made for. DTx helps to manage conditions by monitoring changes in patients remotely to achieve enhanced long-term outcomes. DTx applications are developed to target specific diseases like hypertension and pulmonary diseases (Dang et al., 2020). In most cases, services by DTx complement conventional