In this month’s Digital Health Roundup, Medtech Insight’s Marion Webb looks back at ADA 2023 highlights and her interviews with diabetes company execs. Reed Miller discusses his Cardio Conversation with Volta Medical and Hannah Daniel discusses the FDA’s Clinical Decision Support Software final guidance.

FDA authorized Better Therapeutics’ AspyreRx, formerly known as BT-001, a prescription-only digital therapeutic that provides cognitive behavioral therapy to adults with type 2 diabetes. The company plans to launch it in the fourth quarter of 2023.

Pear Therapeutics filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in April and sold its remaining assets in an auction for about $6m. The demise of one the pioneers in the prescription digital therapeutics industry highlights the challenges PDT developers face getting their products reimbursed.

Digital and telehealth solutions took off during COVID-19 and industry observers expect them to advance still further in the coming year. Coupling enhanced patient experience with rich opportunities to use associated data to enhance product development and health care practice, benefits should accrue to industry, health care practitioners, health systems and patients alike.