打游戲可以治病?FDA批準(zhǔn)打電游為處方療法
多家機(jī)構(gòu)的調(diào)研數(shù)據(jù)顯示,美國約有5%到11%的兒童患有注意力缺陷多動障礙(ADHD)。因此,阿德拉、利他林、Vyvanse等治療ADHD的藥物存在巨大的市場。
通過藥物成分來緩解ADHD癥狀屬于傳統(tǒng)療法。而現(xiàn)在,數(shù)字治療競爭者也開始加入,有公司研發(fā)出基于視頻游戲的處方數(shù)字療法,以幫助注意力有問題的ADHD兒童患者。
該款設(shè)備叫作EndeavorRx,由總部位于波士頓的數(shù)字醫(yī)療公司Akili開發(fā)。EndeavorRx在同類產(chǎn)品中首個獲得美國食品與藥品管理局(FDA)批準(zhǔn)。自2010年以來,Akili公司就一直在數(shù)字醫(yī)療領(lǐng)域發(fā)力,另辟蹊徑獲得了今天的成績。
Akili公司的首席執(zhí)行官埃迪?馬圖奇告訴《財富》雜志:“關(guān)鍵在于數(shù)據(jù)。獲得臨床驗證之后,人們才會相信。這里指的是病人、醫(yī)生,每個人。”
馬圖齊在耶魯大學(xué)獲得了生物化學(xué)和生物物理學(xué)的博士學(xué)位,隨后進(jìn)入健康創(chuàng)業(yè)領(lǐng)域。他從骨子里就密切關(guān)注證據(jù)和數(shù)據(jù)。他說:“我最大的愿望就是讓研究人員完成科學(xué)研究,然后造?;颊??!?
也許這就是Akili能成功通過FDA審核的秘訣。數(shù)字健康領(lǐng)域里充斥著諸多激進(jìn)的說法,卻往往難以實現(xiàn)。而馬圖齊的理念是,技術(shù)以及相關(guān)炒作要通過現(xiàn)實世界中隨機(jī)試驗得到的證據(jù)加以佐證。
馬圖齊說:“我們與技術(shù)領(lǐng)域和醫(yī)療健康領(lǐng)域的投資者合作,董事會也由兩個行業(yè)的專家組成。我們與加州大學(xué)舊金山分校、杜克大學(xué)等眾多頂尖大學(xué)合作,進(jìn)行嚴(yán)格的臨床試驗。”公司還與一些企業(yè)達(dá)成戰(zhàn)略合作,開展市場推廣,其中包括日本藥業(yè)巨頭鹽野義制藥(Shionogi)。
Akili已經(jīng)進(jìn)行了五項臨床研究,涉及600多名多動癥兒童。其中包括業(yè)界認(rèn)為可作為黃金標(biāo)準(zhǔn)的隨機(jī)對照試驗。試驗將不同的研究對象隨機(jī)分組,觀察不同的治療方法效果如何。
馬圖奇強(qiáng)調(diào),數(shù)字療法并不會完全替代傳統(tǒng)藥物治療。他認(rèn)為這是能提升注意力的針對性數(shù)字化治療。他說,公司的研究表明,不管患者服用還是不服用ADHD藥物,該療法在提升注意力方面都有良好效果。
馬圖奇指出:“我們關(guān)注的重點并不是將新療法強(qiáng)加入現(xiàn)有的藥物治療模式中。我們更希望實現(xiàn)純粹的數(shù)字療法?!保ㄘ敻恢形木W(wǎng))
譯者:Feb
多家機(jī)構(gòu)的調(diào)研數(shù)據(jù)顯示,美國約有5%到11%的兒童患有注意力缺陷多動障礙(ADHD)。因此,阿德拉、利他林、Vyvanse等治療ADHD的藥物存在巨大的市場。
通過藥物成分來緩解ADHD癥狀屬于傳統(tǒng)療法。而現(xiàn)在,數(shù)字治療競爭者也開始加入,有公司研發(fā)出基于視頻游戲的處方數(shù)字療法,以幫助注意力有問題的ADHD兒童患者。
該款設(shè)備叫作EndeavorRx,由總部位于波士頓的數(shù)字醫(yī)療公司Akili開發(fā)。EndeavorRx在同類產(chǎn)品中首個獲得美國食品與藥品管理局(FDA)批準(zhǔn)。自2010年以來,Akili公司就一直在數(shù)字醫(yī)療領(lǐng)域發(fā)力,另辟蹊徑獲得了今天的成績。
Akili公司的首席執(zhí)行官埃迪?馬圖奇告訴《財富》雜志:“關(guān)鍵在于數(shù)據(jù)。獲得臨床驗證之后,人們才會相信。這里指的是病人、醫(yī)生,每個人?!?
馬圖齊在耶魯大學(xué)獲得了生物化學(xué)和生物物理學(xué)的博士學(xué)位,隨后進(jìn)入健康創(chuàng)業(yè)領(lǐng)域。他從骨子里就密切關(guān)注證據(jù)和數(shù)據(jù)。他說:“我最大的愿望就是讓研究人員完成科學(xué)研究,然后造?;颊??!?
也許這就是Akili能成功通過FDA審核的秘訣。數(shù)字健康領(lǐng)域里充斥著諸多激進(jìn)的說法,卻往往難以實現(xiàn)。而馬圖齊的理念是,技術(shù)以及相關(guān)炒作要通過現(xiàn)實世界中隨機(jī)試驗得到的證據(jù)加以佐證。
馬圖齊說:“我們與技術(shù)領(lǐng)域和醫(yī)療健康領(lǐng)域的投資者合作,董事會也由兩個行業(yè)的專家組成。我們與加州大學(xué)舊金山分校、杜克大學(xué)等眾多頂尖大學(xué)合作,進(jìn)行嚴(yán)格的臨床試驗?!惫具€與一些企業(yè)達(dá)成戰(zhàn)略合作,開展市場推廣,其中包括日本藥業(yè)巨頭鹽野義制藥(Shionogi)。
Akili已經(jīng)進(jìn)行了五項臨床研究,涉及600多名多動癥兒童。其中包括業(yè)界認(rèn)為可作為黃金標(biāo)準(zhǔn)的隨機(jī)對照試驗。試驗將不同的研究對象隨機(jī)分組,觀察不同的治療方法效果如何。
馬圖奇強(qiáng)調(diào),數(shù)字療法并不會完全替代傳統(tǒng)藥物治療。他認(rèn)為這是能提升注意力的針對性數(shù)字化治療。他說,公司的研究表明,不管患者服用還是不服用ADHD藥物,該療法在提升注意力方面都有良好效果。
馬圖奇指出:“我們關(guān)注的重點并不是將新療法強(qiáng)加入現(xiàn)有的藥物治療模式中。我們更希望實現(xiàn)純粹的數(shù)字療法。”(財富中文網(wǎng))
譯者:Feb
Depending on whose numbers you use, somewhere between 5% and 11% of American children have ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder). That has created a massive market for attention deficit disorder drugs such as Adderall, Ritalin, Vyvanse, and others.
But those treatments are all traditional therapeutics, imbibed via pills. Now, a digital competitor is heading into the space—a prescription video game that’s meant to help children with ADHD focus.
The product is Boston-based digital health firm Akili’s EndeavorRx, and it’s the first of its kind to gain Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance. Akili has been around since 2010 but walked a very specific path to get to this milestone.
“Everything is about data,” Akili CEO Eddie Martucci tells Fortune. “Getting the clinical evidence, so people can trust it. And by that I mean the patients, their doctors, everyone.”
The focus on evidence and data is built into Martucci’s academic pedigree. He has a Ph.D. in biochemistry and biophysics from Yale and then headed into the world of health entrepreneurship. “I’ve always been interested in letting the science be done by the researchers and then bring it to patients,” he says.
And therein lies the secret sauce to Akili’s success with the FDA. The digital health realm is littered with bold proclamations which often don’t pan out. Martucci’s philosophy is that the tech and the hype must always be supplemented by evidence in the real world via the means of randomized trials.
“We’ve worked with investors in both the technology field and the health care field. Our board is a hybrid of those two [forms of] expertise,” he says. “We partner with top-tier universities, such as UC–San Francisco, Duke University, and countless others to run rigorous clinical trials.” The company also has strategic partnerships with companies such as Japanese drug giant Shionogi to market its product.
Akili has conducted five clinical studies involving more than 600 children with ADHD. These included randomized controlled trials—considered the gold standard in the clinical study world—which place different study participants into various groups to see whether or not one therapeutic approach is as effective as another.
Martucci emphasizes that the video game approach isn’t meant to supplant traditional drugs. He considers it a targeted digital treatment to increase focus and says the company’s studies have shown the product is just as good on that front for patients who take ADHD medications as well as for those who don’t.
“We’re not focused on just shoving this into some existing pharmaceutical model,” he says. “We want this to be what the model for digital therapeutics actually should be.”