Written by Emanuele Arcà on Thursday 3rd September 2020
Digital Therapeutics Landscape in Europe: The Case of Germany and the UK
The COVID-19 virus crisis has opened immense windows of opportunity in healthcare around the globe. One of the greatest opportunities is in digital health, and in particular, digital therapeutics (DTx). The need for continued medical care combined with social distancing has led to a spike in use of digital health tools worldwide.1 As the interest in and use of digital health has grown during this period, we anticipate that investments in digital health tools will continue to accelerate after the COVID-19 pandemic. When the COVID-19 outbreak started, millions of Chinese people turned to online doctors and online health tools1 to find the needed support for their health. While these developments could create new risks for privacy and data protection, they also represent an unprecedented opportunity to integrate industry 4.0 in healthcare for the benefit of patients.