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...