Digital therapeutics – software that reinforces or replaces clinical therapies altogether – limit the need for live interactions with providers, and lower the barriers to accessing treatment.

An interesting thing to think about is how the worlds of healthcare and gaming have begun to blur already. We’ve begun seeing it with digital therapeutics - Akili Therapeutics is quite literally a video game to treat ADHD.

Second, the line between a diagnostic and a therapeutic start blurring. One version of the game could help assess whether a child has low-grade ADHD, and transition them into the therapeutic version of the game. Plus the game is already assessing and modifying itself based on in-game performance anyway so it has to have some diagnostic properties... See more

These technological offerings can address unmet health-care needs by circumventing traditional intermediaries, such as payers (eg, insurance companies and governments), clinicians, employers, and the pharmaceutical industry, and provide patients with direct access to health-related data and services. Like other industries that empower consumers... See more