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.

Sofinnova Partners has played an important role in defining the medtech investment space for the past 50 years, helping bring to market a plethora of life-saving technologies, even when they appear, initially, to be risky.

In this month’s Digital Health Roundup, Medtech Insight’s Marion Webb and Hannah Daniel discuss highlights from their DTA Summit coverage in Washington. Reed Miller talked to Frank Chan, the president of Medtronic’s Patient Monitoring, about plans for their patient monitoring as an independent company and Bayer AG’s new business unit focusing on digital health.

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.