Blue Matter Blog
November 21, 2023
As we covered in the previous articles on this topic, Part 1 and Part 2, the line between medical devices and consumer wearables is increasingly blurring. Consumer wearables become more medicalized in their functionality, and medical devices become more appropriate for consumer applications. There are many underlying causes for this shift, including the cost reduction …
September 19, 2023
In part 1 of this series, we described the rapidly blurring line between medical devices and consumer wearables. Typically, medical devices are prescribed by physicians for purely medical purposes while consumer wearables are purchased by consumers for a variety of non-medical reasons, mostly related to general wellness. However, the two categories are beginning to overlap. …
September 7, 2023
Historically, medical devices and consumer wearables could not be more different: one, a clunky beige piece of prescription equipment, probably provided by your physician, the other a sleek electronic that you purchased to monitor steps, sleep, and other aspects of your wellbeing. Increasingly, these two categories are starting to overlap. Functionality that has been developed …
March 22, 2023
Introduction Around this time last year, we published our first U.S prescription digital therapeutics (PDT) market landscape[1] to provide insight into the potential growth and future directions of this emerging market. We also offered a hypothesis that the path to success would be paved by several PDT developers simultaneously commercializing to collectively “build pressure” towards …
February 21, 2023
Introduction The U.S. is the largest healthcare market in the world, and it is an imperative for digital health companies within or outside the U.S. to develop a go-to-market plan to both (1) unlock the full commercial value of their products and (2) gain the confidence of early/mid-stage investors to fund business growth. As digital …
February 14, 2022
The Long Road of PDT Market Development With a very exciting 2021 and 2022 for prescription digital therapeutics (PDTs), a lot of people are asking: Are PDTs on the verge of achieving “critical mass,” the point at which they truly scale up and achieve a sustainable level of market penetration in an environment conducive to …
July 9, 2021
The Digital Therapeutics (DTx) space is new and rapidly growing within the healthcare landscape (for a DTx 101: Intro and Overview, see here). Biopharma companies should carefully consider their potential entry into this space, as their customers will be increasingly engaging with DTx products that have the potential to complement or even compete with biopharma …