Healthcare

The diabetes epidemic continues to grow in the UK. With a growing diabetic patient population, health care professionals (HCPs) are faced with an overwhelming backlog of patient needs, with the provider-to-patient ratio growing more disparate as time goes on. However, technological advancements have made great bounds in alleviating the pressures on both patients and HCPs in recent years. With the arrival of insulin pumps, dedicated diabetes mobile apps, data analysis and remote monitoring, it is becoming easier than ever for patients to self manage and for HCPs to have a more accurate overview of a patients’ condition. As the role of digital within diabetes management continues to expand, we’ll be seeing more and more digital solutions that address the key needs of diabetes patients and HCPs alike. Here, we've highlighted 4 key digital trends in diabetes care.

Digital therapeutics — often referred to as DTx — are products that “deliver evidence-based therapeutic interventions to patients that are driven by high-quality software programs to prevent, manage, or treat a medical disorder or disease". In this article, we take a brief look at what a DTx solution really is, and what makes an effective DTx in terms of its design components.

In aid of World Health Day 2021 and this year’s theme, the Graphite team came together to reflect on some of the ways that digital innovation is supporting the movement towards building a healthier world and creating fair opportunities for everyone across the globe to get access to great healthcare.