List of digital therapeutics companies

This is a list of companies in digital therapeutics, a healthcare discipline that utilizes digital and Internet-based health technologies to make behavioral and lifestyle changes in patients.[1][2][3] Digital therapeutics is a relatively new discipline that uses digital implements like mobile devices, apps, sensors, the Internet of Things, and others to spur behavioral changes in patients.[2][4][5] The methodology operates as both a preventative technique for at-risk patients and a treatment for patients with existing conditions.[6][7][8] The companies in this list are organized by the health conditions or functions on which they focus.

Mobile Applications

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Mental Illness App

  • MoodHacker MoodHacker is accessible through a website and mobile application that combines the skills and techniques of positive psychology and cognitive treatment for depression, which is a funding tool for self-management of depression based on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). The goal is to motivate employees to work, improve their mood, reduce depressive symptoms, and prevent escalation into clinical depression. As for CBT, it can reduce their pressure and stress. This is a positive psychological intervention, where through expressing their mood, the employees release negative energy, increase positive mood and happiness. MoodHacker application promotes self-management strategy[9].

Weight-loss App

  • My Fitness Pal My Fitness Pal is a mobile app for calculating the food intake and depleting of calories. Users can build a self-defining diet and exercise plan, and the app will track all the nutritive absorption according to this plan and it will give feedback report to the user. My Fitness Pal has the largest database of food and exercises, which can help to create a comprehensive weight loss plan. This application helps people lose weight and develop health habits[10].

Cannabis Intervention App

  • Stop-Cannabis Stop-Cannabis application is help people who have cannabis addiction, the app can treat their daily life because combines ecological momentary assessments (EMAs) and ecological momentary interventions (EMIs). This app is based on the self monitor, goal setting, action planning, and feedback report, which combines the behavior treatment to help users stop use cannabis[11].

Asthma App

  • AsthmaMD AsthmaMD is the application for monitoring asthma, which combines peak expiratory flow (how fast a person can breathe out air) and symptom data chart. Its main significance is to make it convenient for patients to record their peak flow and data, and take appropriate measures as directed by the doctor. At the same time, researchers can track these data and use it to determine the cause and region of asthma flare formation[12].

Kidney App

  • Chronic Kidney Disease Chronic Kidney Disease application is used as an aid to the care of patients with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD). The main goal is through four aspects: monitoring blood pressure, drug management, symptom assessment, tracking results. Sending this data to pharmacy and laboratory database, kidney care team analyze the patient’s condition according to the data, and give patients appropriate medication. Patients will give their feedback about the medication. If they have an adverse reaction, the medical team will adjust the patient’s dietary intake[13].

Suicide Prevention App

  • Besafe Besafe is an application for preventing suicide of children or adolescents. As teenagers use smartphones and applications, Besafe app is an effective way to prevent teenagers who are thinking about suicide. The application prevents suicide by transmitting psychology education and offering crisis coping tools, to prevent deliberate self-harm[14].

References

  1. ↑ Hixon, Todd (9 December 2015). "Digital Therapeutics Have Huge Promise And They Are Real Today". Forbes. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
  2. 1 2 Kvedar, Joseph (25 August 2016). "It's time to break free of the traditional paradigms of disease management". Med City News. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
  3. ↑ Cymerys, Ed; Duffy, Sean (May 2015). "Implementing USPSTF Recommendations on Behavioral Counseling for Cardiovascular Disease". Health Watch. Society of Actuaries (78).
  4. ↑ Hird, Nick; Ghosh, Samik; Kitano, Hiroaki (June 2016). "Digital health revolution: perfect storm or perfect opportunity for pharmaceutical R&D?". Drug Discovery Today. 21 (6): 900–911. doi:10.1016/j.drudis.2016.01.010. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
  5. ↑ Capobianco, Enrico (10 November 2015). "On Digital Therapeutics". Frontiers in Digital Humanities. 2 (6). doi:10.3389/fdigh.2015.00006. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
  6. ↑ Kvedar, Joseph C.; Fogel, Alexander L.; Elenko, Eric; Zohar, Daphne (March 2016). "Digital medicine's march on chronic disease" (PDF). Nature Biotechnology. 34 (3): 239–246. doi:10.1038/nbt.3495. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
  7. ↑ Sepah, Cameron S.; Jiang, Luohua; Peters, Anne L. (2015). "Long-Term Outcomes of a Web-Based Diabetes Prevention Program: 2-Year Results of a Single-Arm Longitudinal Study". Journal of Medical Internet Research. 17 (4): e92. doi:10.2196/jmir.4052. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
  8. ↑ Dahlberg, Leif E.; Grahn, Daniel; Dahlberg, Jakob E.; Thorstensson, Carina A. (2016). "A Web-Based Platform for Patients With Osteoarthritis of the Hip and Knee: A Pilot Study" (PDF). Journal of Medical Internet Research. 5 (2): e115. doi:10.2196/resprot.5665. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
  9. ↑ Amelia J, Birney (26 Jan 2016). "MoodHacker Mobile Web App With Email for Adults to Self-Manage Mild-to-Moderate Depression: Randomized Controlled Trial". JMIR Mhealth Uhealth. 4 (1): e8. doi:10.2196/mhealth.4231. PMC 4748138. PMID 26813737.
  10. ↑ David, Rebedew (Mar–Apr 2015). "MyFitnessPal". AAFP Home.
  11. ↑ Monney, Gregoire (27 Aug 2015). "mHealth app for cannabis users: satisfaction and perceived usefulness". Frontiers.
  12. ↑ Kao, Cheng-Kai (May 2017). "Consumer Mobile Health Apps: Current State, Barriers, and Future Directions". NeuroImage. 9 (5): S106–S115. doi:10.1016/j.pmrj.2017.02.018.
  13. ↑ Diamantidis, Clarissa (9 Jan 2014). "Health information technology (IT) to improve the care of patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD)". BMC Nephrology.
  14. ↑ Gregory, Jonathan (1 Mar 2017). "Integrating Smartphone Technology at the Time of Discharge from a Child and Adolescent Inpatient Psychiatry Unit". Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports. 26 (1): 45–50. PMC 5349282. PMID 28331503.
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