Digital therapeutics” vs. “Mental health apps”: A growing debate on standards, regulation and efficacy

The effi­ca­cy of Men­tal Health Apps (phar­mafo­rum): In Jan­u­ary, PLOS Dig­i­tal Health pub­lished a study which claimed that there’s “sparse” data to sup­port the effi­ca­cy of most men­tal health apps. In their meta-ana­ly­­sis of pub­lished stud­ies, the authors found uni­ver­sal defi­cien­cies and con­clud­ed that there’s no con­vinc­ing evi­dence that app-based inter­ven­tions deliv­er mean­ing­ful out­comes. Without…

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The American Medical Association’s (AMA) to ease access to remote Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Monitoring

The Dig­i­tal Ther­a­peu­tics Alliance Wel­comes Deci­sion by the CPT® Edi­to­r­i­al Pan­el to Clar­i­fy Report­ing of Remote Cog­ni­tive Behav­ioral Ther­a­py Mon­i­tor­ing Ser­vices (press release): As the lead­ing inter­na­tion­al orga­ni­za­tion on dig­i­tal ther­a­peu­tic thought lead­er­ship and edu­ca­tion, the Dig­i­tal Ther­a­peu­tics Alliance (DTA) wel­comes the Amer­i­can Med­ical Association’s (AMA) Cur­rent Pro­ce­dur­al Ter­mi­nol­o­gy (CPT®) Edi­to­r­i­al Pan­el’s recent deci­sion to…

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