Duffy: Digital therapeutics software can scale reliably like traditional drugs
Sean Duffy · a16z Podcast | The Rise of the Digital 'Pill' · Jan 2, 2019 · at 4:25
Sean Duffy, CEO of Omada Health, explains how digital software experiences enable reliable, overnight deployment and scaling similar to pharmaceuticals.
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“Software and using a combination of social experiences, people, you know, devices, curriculum, content, you know, timelines, goals, all of that allows these approaches to Actually scale in a way that you might imagine a traditional drug could scale, where it's reliable, it's reproducible, you can deploy overnight anywhere.”
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