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Hello, everyone, and
welcome to this talk
about the role of
digital therapeutics
in healthcare systems.
My name is Joris van Dam.
I've been working
in digital health,
in the life sciences sector,
for the past 20-plus years.
Currently, I'm a vice
president of data innovation
at Exact Sciences,
and much of the work we're
going to talk about today,
I conducted when I was
executive director
for the digital therapeutics
development program
at the Novartis Institutes
for Biomedical Research.
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Today, we're going to talk
about three main topics.
First, we're going to
look at numerous examples
of digital therapeutics
that are used
throughout the
healthcare system today.
This is not intended as
an in-depth introduction
to digital therapeutics,
but rather, I'd like
to give you a flavor
of the different
shapes and forms
in which digital
therapeutics can appear
in the healthcare system today,
because secondly, and the main
topic of this conversation,
is to explore how
digital therapeutics
can improve healthcare systems
and what role they can play
in healthcare systems today.
We're going to conclude today's
talk with a brief summary
and some recommendations
for those of you
who seek to develop their own
digital therapeutic solution.
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So what are digital
therapeutics?
Well, the term itself is
pretty much a dead giveaway.
First and foremost,
it's a therapeutic.
The purpose of a
digital therapeutic,
like any therapeutic,
is to treat or alleviate
disease, disorder, condition,
or injury.
The second word in the
term is "digital,"
so that means that digital
software and/or digital hardware
is being used to
deliver the therapeutic
or therapeutic intervention,
and that's the way
we're going to look at
digital therapeutic
examples today.
First, we're going to look
at what's the therapy.
So if you leave the "digital"
out of the digital therapeutic,
what's left?
Secondly, we're going to look at
how does adding the digital
to the digital therapeutic
make the therapy better?
What does it do for the
patient, for the provider,
and for the healthcare system?
So let's have a look
at some examples.
