Making Digital Health Work
Design Principles in SaMD/DTx
It is predicted that by 2030, the world will experience a shortage of 15 million healthcare professionals. This comes from a growing elderly population, an increase in chronic diseases, and other pressing issues, all of which require urgent innovation in healthcare. Digital Healthcare is poised to address these challenges by introducing novel care methods that mitigate worker shortages and offer personalized and efficient care to previously underserved populations.
The critical issue is sustaining user engagement with digital healthcare applications long after the initial excitement fades. This poses a significant challenge to achieving long-term health tracking and behavioral change. The potential benefits of digital healthcare solutions are vast, but the solution to these challenges needs to be identified and implemented soon to realize its full potential. This presentation will review ten principles that are key to capturing and maintaining your audience's attention with your digital health applications.
What is SaMD?
SaMD is “software as a medical device that is intended to be used for one or more medical purposes without being part of an existing hardware medical device.” An adjacent inclusion of SaMD includes software with the intended purpose of driving a medical device, and those devices that fetch patient data. While those can also fall under SaMD definitions, it remains unclear whether those uses require greater regulations, or stop short of that.
What is DTx?
DTx provide software-driven therapeutic interventions in conjunction with treatment, management, or prevention of a disease or disorder. They can be combined with an existing treatment or prescribed as a standalone treatment. However, there is much debate as to their effectiveness as a standalone treatment, and the FDA has given its approval to only a handful of DTx solutions as an approved treatment.
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Featured Speaker(s)
David Box
David Box is a seasoned executive with extensive international experience dedicated to improving patient outcomes with digital products that are a pleasure to use. He has a track record of helping customers in Europe, Asia, and the US conceptualize, develop, and bring healthcare technologies and services to market. David collaborates with clients throughout the process, from idea generation to product launch and beyond. Spending more than a decade working with digital health, life science, pharma, and MedTech industry clients, he has helped create disruptive products and services that lead the market and positively impact patient outcomes and engagement.
