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Medicine without Meds

Transforming Patient Care with Digital Therapies

Dean Ho, Yoann Sapanel, and Agata Blasiak

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How digital therapies can transform your health.

Traditional health care has a new ally. Some patients with sleep disorders, back pain, and diabetes are now being prescribed app-based treatment instead of drugs. Algorithms are helping cancer patients manage their symptoms, and video games are improving the attention span of children diagnosed with ADHD. A new class of medicine called digital therapeutics (DTx) is gaining traction and transforming the way patients engage with the health care system. In Medicine without Meds, Dean Ho, Yoann Sapanel, and Agata Blasiak explore the exciting...

How digital therapies can transform your health.

Traditional health care has a new ally. Some patients with sleep disorders, back pain, and diabetes are now being prescribed app-based treatment instead of drugs. Algorithms are helping cancer patients manage their symptoms, and video games are improving the attention span of children diagnosed with ADHD. A new class of medicine called digital therapeutics (DTx) is gaining traction and transforming the way patients engage with the health care system. In Medicine without Meds, Dean Ho, Yoann Sapanel, and Agata Blasiak explore the exciting potential for these digital therapies to transform patient care.

Ho, Sapanel, and Blasiak share their insights on how these therapies can deliver value beyond the technology, address the challenges of implementation in existing health care models, and revolutionize care delivery. These clinicians, researchers, engineers, patients, start-up founders, and corporate executives are at the forefront of designing and building tomorrow's DTx. They explain what DTx represents, how it differs from other digital health solutions, and how these tools can be conceptualized, created, and brought to market. Throughout, case studies from leading DTx organization such as Akili Interactive, MedRhythms, and Welldoc illuminate best practices in product development, issues to consider, and pitfalls to avoid. These essays, along with a foreword by D. A. Wallach and Dr. Eddie Martucci's outlook on the future of DTx, present the exciting potential for DTx to reimagine health care for all.

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This book shares useful resources, discusses insightful case studies (both successful and unsuccessful), and provides guidelines at various technology and business development stages. The case studies and key takeaways are particularly instrumental and enjoyable to read. The international coverage of the topic is another highlight of the book. I consider the book highly original, and it represents a substantial contribution to the digital therapeutic space. It should be a must-read.

Medicine without Meds is an authoritative primer on digital therapeutics (DTx) for investors, entrepreneurs, clinicians, and policymakers. DTx have the ability to improve access to care and outcomes in a meaningful way, and if implemented effectively, can close health equity gaps. This book is a great start in helping leaders implement DTx effectively.

Apps are no longer just for tracking diets or steps but are becoming directly part of the medical treatment. Whether helping cancer patients or ADHD children, digital therapeutics are revolutionizing the way patients access health care. Medicine without Meds explains how our health will be transformed through digital health.

This book expertly brings together the leaders—from patients, clinicians, and health-systems, to manufacturers, venture capitalists, and policymakers—who can jointly transform the opportunities of digital therapeutics into reality. It is an incredible springboard for delivering therapies to patients worldwide. 

There are only three ways you can effectively scale up an intervention for a population: add it to the water or food, make it a compulsory part of the curriculum in schools, or digitalize it. Medicine without Meds shows us how to do the latter. And convinces us it works!

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9
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336
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9781421447032
Illustration Description
5 halftones, 12 line drawings
Table of Contents

Foreword
D. A. Wallach
Preface
Introduction. The Context
Part I. What Are Digital Therapeutics?
Chapter 1. Digital Health Solutions versus Digital Therapeutics
Part II. The Right Tool for the Right Problem
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Foreword
D. A. Wallach
Preface
Introduction. The Context
Part I. What Are Digital Therapeutics?
Chapter 1. Digital Health Solutions versus Digital Therapeutics
Part II. The Right Tool for the Right Problem
Chapter 2. Addressing Unmet Stakeholder Needs
Chapter 3. Addressing Unmet Clinical Needs
Chapter 4. Ensuring Business Viability Early
Chapter 5. Test, Learn, and Pivot
Part III. From Pilot to Production
Chapter 6. Data Sourcing and Management
Chapter 7. Clinical Validation: Unique Challenges and Novel Approaches
Chapter 8. Factors That Influence the Implementation of New Technologies
Chapter 9. Recommendations for DTx Implementation
Chapter 10. Supporting Adoption of DTx
Part IV. Paths to Commercialization
Chapter 11. Channel Partnerships: The Ultimate Commercialization Strategy
Chapter 12. The Price Is Right: Value in the Eye of the Beholder
Conclusion. The Future of DTx
With Dr. Eddie Martucci
Acknowledgments
Appendix A. AI and Its Potential Use in DTx: A Brief Overview of Frequently Asked Questions
Appendix B. How to Translate Evidence-Based Theories to the Design of Digitally Delivered Mental Health Interventions
Bibliography
Index

Author Bios
Dean Ho
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Dean Ho

Dean Ho (SINGAPORE) is the Provost’s Chair Professor, the Director of the Institute for Digital Medicine and the N.1 Institute for Health, and the Head of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the National University of Singapore.
Yoann Sapanel
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Yoann Sapanel

Yoann Sapanel (SINGAPORE) is the Head of Health Innovation at the Institute for Digital Medicine at the National University of Singapore.
Agata Blasiak
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Agata Blasiak, PhD

Agata Blasiak (SINGAPORE) is the Head of Digital Health Innovation at the Institute for Digital Medicine and the N.1 Institute for Health at the National University of Singapore.