The AI Era of Digital Therapeutics: Global Research Trends, Market Growth, and Strategic Insights for Healthcare Leaders
Title Introduction: Why Digital Therapeutics Are Becoming the Next Healthcare Revolution Healthcare is entering a new era where treatment is no longer limited to drugs, surgery, or hospital visits. Today, software itself can become medicine. This new category— Digital Therapeutics (DTx) —uses evidence-based software programs to prevent, manage, or treat diseases. Combined with Clinical AI , predictive analytics, behavioral science, and real-time patient monitoring, digital therapeutics are rapidly reshaping healthcare delivery worldwide. From depression treatment apps to diabetes coaching platforms, insomnia programs, ADHD cognitive training, and cardiac rehabilitation systems, digital therapeutics are moving from experimental innovation to mainstream clinical adoption. A recent bibliometric study analyzing 1,114 global publications from 2014 to 2023 found that research output in digital therapeutics grew at an extraordinary 66.1% annual growth rate , signaling explosive global ...