Abstract:

Digital Therapeutics combines diseases, data, and algorithms to help medical staffs monitor patient’s condition remotely. Meanwhile, it can be combined with drug therapy to improve efficacy, reduce treatment costs, and better manage diseases. This paper analyzes and summarizes the technical background, definition, categorization and typical application scenarios of DTx. On this basis, this paper further analyzes the current development status and challenges of the DTx industry and provides some suggestions for its future development from both the technical and policy perspectives.

Key words: digital therapeutics, evidence-based medicine, intervention, chronic disease management