As the digital therapeutics industry deals with a lack of reimbursement pathways, companies like Akili Interactive are taking alternate approaches to growth.
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The Digital Therapeutics Alliance (DTA) and Healthware Group today announced a partnership to form a coalition convening thought leaders, policymakers, and professional and trade associations from across
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All around the world the coronavirus pandemic has led to an uptick in digital healthcare delivery models. While telemedicine is often touted as the poster child of digital success in 2020, digital therapeutics (DTx) also emerged as a player on the global stage. What we are seeing is digital therapeutics, while they won’t directly treat COVID, they are really an integral component of this healthcare going forward. I think policymakers and payers increasingly over the year have understood that, Megan Coder, executive director of the Digital Therapeutics Alliance, said during a panel discussion at DTx West this morning.
Coder noted that in the United States, she saw policymakers go from barely understanding the field in February and March of 2020 to actively seeking out these technologies just a few months later.