Dr Soumya Vishwanath Gives an Overview of the Therapeutic Gaps in Behavioral Health Disorders

Soumya Vishwanath, PharmD, senior manager of formulary strategy at
Magellan Rx Management, highlighted the therapeutic gaps that need to be addressed to ensure that patients with behavioral health disorders are well cared for.

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What are some of the therapeutic gaps when it comes to addressing behavioral health disorders?

Some therapeutic gaps that we can think of and that come to mind when addressing behavioral health disorders is really recognizing when for a patient pharmacotherapy may or may not be the right choice. There's different types of pharmacotherapy that's used for patients, but sometimes that may not be fully effective or enough for a patient, and that's where the potential for digital therapeutics can come into space and then into play for these patients.