Why providers are key to digital therapeutic uptake?

Plus, digital therapeutics could help mitigate a shortage of clinicians like physicians, nurses and mental health professionals, said Chris Wasden, head of HappifyDTx at Happify Health. Patients can use digital therapeutics to advance their care on their own, adding hours of therapeutic time that clinicians don’t have to directly provide. Clinicians don’t want to act as tech support for managing digital therapeutics, and they need to be easy to explain to patients. They’re also concerned about the amount of data that could come from digital therapeutic products, said Wasden. It’s also important for digital therapeutics to work with the technology architecture that providers and health systems are using