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.

Video game therapy developer Akili Interactive launched a mobile video game therapy to reduce ADHD symptoms in adults. The company plans to seek FDA clearance.

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.

There are fewer than a handful of prescription video game digital therapeutics with regulatory clearance, but gamification in patient care is proving its worth as a novel way of treating a range of conditions, from vision loss to dyslexia and ADHD. Now, the onus is on lawmakers and insurers to create a clear path towards reimbursement.