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Buildings like hospitals and banks on a web with people operating laptops and phones — health tech coverage from STAT — Adobe

For years, the playbook for many companies that wanted to market digital therapeutics was stupid simple: Sell it like a prescription drug.

But just because it was simple didn’t mean it was going to work.

The bankruptcy of Pear Therapeutics last year proved that selling software-based treatments like drugs is harder than anticipated. Pear received Food and Drug Administration clearance for its app treating substance use disorders and insomnia but insurers mostly refused to cover the novel treatments. Even after hitting roadblock after roadblock, the company stuck to its original plan and ended up vaporizing over $400 million in investment before finally throwing in the towel.

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