What clinicians should look for in a prescription digital therapeutic
A guide to evaluating DTx products on clinical evidence rather than marketing claims.
Digital therapeutics are often marketed with confident language — "clinically proven," "AI-powered," "FDA cleared." For a clinician deciding whether to prescribe one, those phrases say very little on their own.
The products worth prescribing tend to share a small set of concrete traits: a defined patient population, a study design that could actually fail, and a monitoring workflow that fits into how a clinic already operates.
Interactive checklist
Evaluate a DTx product before you prescribe it
None of this replaces clinical judgment. But a short checklist can separate products built around real evidence from products built around a pitch deck — before either one reaches a patient.