Digital therapeutics

Digital therapeutics are software programs designed to treat medical conditions. Providers increasingly use them to improve patient outcomes and offer personalized medicine within the mental healthcare and chronic disease management areas. However, regulatory hurdles, data privacy concerns and efficacy validation challenges must be addressed to expand adoption and use.

Oracle unveils offline EHR for remote care settings
Oracle Health Community Care offers offline EHR access to support remote and in-home care delivery in areas with limited ...
AI for medical documentation frees doctors from the keyboard
athenahealth's Chadd Dodd, VP of product management, shares how AI for medical documentation is flipping the script on health IT ...
What are the top 8 healthcare data and coding standards?
Data standards are the secret sauce that allow information to flow from one provider to another and enable providers to bill for ...

Episource data breach affects 5.4M individuals
IT vendor Episource suffered a ransomware attack earlier this year that resulted in a multi-million-record data breach that ...
Lawmakers introduce bipartisan healthcare cybersecurity bill
The Healthcare Cybersecurity Act aims to increase coordination between HHS and CISA, particularly during active cyberattacks.
Kettering Health resumes normal operations after cyberattack
Kettering Health restored its normal operations three weeks after the Interlock ransomware group launched a cyberattack against ...

'Big Beautiful Bill' puts rural hospitals at even greater risk
The House-passed reconciliation bill would push the 338 rural hospitals already at risk of closing, converting or stopping ...
Uncompensated care to rise by $283B under reconciliation bill
The House reconciliation bill and the expiration of enhanced premium tax credits for Marketplace plans would increase the level ...
How AdventHealth taps technology to get ahead of claim denials
A new AI-driven technology is helping AdventHealth prevent claim denials while the health system builds a more intelligent ...

Medicare out by 2033, other takeaways from the Trustees Report
The 2025 Medicare Trustees Report shows Medicare running dry sooner than previously projected as the program faces increased ...
Medicare Advantage patients face longer hospital stays: Report
NORC researchers found that Medicare Advantage enrollees are more likely to have longer hospital stays and less access to ...
Uninsured rate dips linked to Medicaid expansion, outcomes
Commonwealth Fund researchers said dips in statewide uninsured rates are likely due to Medicaid expansion and the ACA marketplace...

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