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Christoph U. Correll, MD: Hello, my name is Christoph Correll. I'm a professor of Psychiatry and molecular medicine at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra Northwell in New York. I'm also a professor and chair of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Charity University in Berlin, Germany. So, what's the ecosystem of patient-facing tools in the digital health technology world?
We have basically three levels we need to know about. The first one that all of you most likely have been exposed to, and maybe even use yourselves, are wellness and support products that capture, store, or transmit health data. What are these? These are lifestyle apps, activity trackers, medication reminders, wearable and sensors, and also health information collectors. Many of us get every day like, how many steps did you walk today? That can be an incentive to walk more.
There's a second level, and that is diagnostic and monitoring products. They're used to diagnose, guide diagnoses, or actively monitor patients with their mental or other disorders. These are digital diagnostics or biomarkers; although biomarkers are hard to get by—we are in the process of looking more into that—remote monitoring tools, wearables and sensors, and again, even medication ingestible sensors.
Finally, we have therapeutic interventions. These are products that deliver medical interventions and therapies. These are called digital therapeutics. They're clinical interventions delivered directly to patients by software to either prevent, treat, or manage a disease or disorder. If you want to learn more about that, go to Psych Congress Network and get some more information.
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