Banner Health, a non-profit health system operating 30 hospitals and hundreds of specialized facilities across six US states, decided to augment traditional health services with digital therapies. In an interview with The Sidebar, Anna Ostrowicka – Digital Health & Digital Therapeutics Expert at Banner Health – shares her experience in executing Banner Health’s novel digital therapies strategy.
Digital therapeutics (DTx) create new healthcare delivery pathways that extend clinical interventions beyond the clinical setting, making healthcare services more accessible. Since they enable new relationships between healthcare providers (HCPs) and patients, no healthcare system can pass indifferently around the changing clinical ecosystem.
I can imagine digital therapies will be an indispensable element of every treatment process regardless of the stage of disease advancement. It will be a part of a standard protocol for chronic diseases management, says Ostrowicka.
With a team of experts from Banner Health, Ostrowicka is responsible for implementing the digital-oriented strategy, which is already at a very advanced stage. The first digital therapies were targeted at pregnant women and patients with some mental health conditions. Soon new therapeutic areas will follow: diabetes, hypertension, different forms of addiction, and others.
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