关于报告
The proliferation of Digital Health tools, including mobile health apps and wearable sensors, holds great promise for improving human health. Over 318,000 health apps are now available on top app stores worldwide with more than 200 health apps being added each day. This report on Digital Health examines trends in three areas — innovation, evidence and adoption — to assess whether these new tools are positioned to have a fundamental impact on patient care. As Digital Health brings new approaches to the management of health conditions this report explores the growing body of evidence that demonstrates their impact on human health and extrapolates the potential cost savings to the U.S. healthcare system.
Report Summary
随着移动健康应用程序和可穿戴传感器的越来越多必威手机APP，数字健康对患者护理的影响正在加速。必威手机APP现在，与健康相关的移动应用程序可用于消费者，现在超过318,000，几乎是两年前可用的数字。这种快速的应用程序扩展，再加上全球市场上340多个消费者可穿戴设备，提供了数字健康加速创新的证据。必威手机APP目前，患者旅程的每个步骤至少有一个高质量的应用程序。尽管可用的大多数移动健康应用程序都是一般健康应用程序，但健必威手机APP康状况管理应用程序的数量（通常与患者护理相关）的速度更快，现在占所有与健康相关的应用程序的40％。
The overall body of clinical evidence on app efficacy has grown substantially and now includes 571 published studies, enabling the identification of a list of top apps with increasingly robust clinical evidence. The use of such Digital Health apps in just five patient populations where they have proven reductions in acute care utilization (diabetes prevention, diabetes, asthma, cardiac rehabilitation and pulmonary rehabilitation) could save the U.S. healthcare system an estimated $7 billion per year. This represents about 1.4% of total costs in these patient populations. If this level of savings could be extrapolated across total national health expenditure, annual cost savings of $46 billion could be achieved.
患者护理组织将数字保健工具融入临床实践的努力已经进展，美国当前的临床试验纳入了这些工具，估计有20％的大型必威手机APP卫生系统从试点数字健康计划转移到更全面的推广。
However, despite progress to date, a number of barriers still exist to widespread adoption by patient care institutions, and only an intermediate level of adoption has yet occurred. A variety of industry and policy initiatives have now emerged to address these barriers and accelerate the ongoing adoption of Digital Health tools by care provider organizations. Within the next ten years, the use of Digital Health is likely to be mainstream for most organizations delivering human health.
