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.

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