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Analysis: Digital Health Companies Aren’t Solving the Right Problems [KQED.org]

 

Digital health is booming. The market that includes health apps and wearables will increase around 1,200 percent over the next eight years, according to one forecast.

So what’s propelling this surge in demand? “A growing proliferation of chronic diseases, namely diabetes, cancer and heart ailments … ” the report says.

Not only is this trend alarming, said the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Stephen Downs at the recent Stanford Medicine X conference,  but many of the solutions offered by digital health companies are not going to help.

In this age of the Fitbit, Downs said, digital health companies are focused on monitoring the consequences of our notoriously sedentary lifestyles. But what is really called for from innovators is to stop treating symptoms and start remedying the roots of the problem.



[For more of this story, written by Lesley McClurg, go to https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofy...-the-right-problems/]

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