There’s little evidence that mHealth apps are effective

Out of the hundreds of thousands of mHealth apps on the market, the effectiveness of only 22 has been evaluated in the last decade, per a study published in Nature.
mHealth platforms could cause more harm than good to providers and payers that choose to use them to improve consumer health.
JMIR published a meta-analysis revealing that while fitness apps modestly increased physical activity, the average step count between app users and nonusers was nonsignificant.

Our high cost of care will remain stubbornly fixed unless our behavior changes.

Our high cost of care and modest health outcomes will remain stubbornly fixed unless our behavior changes.
Nearly 40% of Americans were considered obese in 2015 and 2016, a significant increase from 2007 and 2008.
A 2016 study published in the Journal of the AMA found that only 2% of Americans met the ideal dietary guidelines adopted by the American Heart Association.
In a 2015 survey, 28% of American adults that they did not participate in the past year in any of 104 listed physical activities and were considered “totally sedentary.”

According to Rock Health adoption of health continues to rise while consumers leverage digital health tools to address concrete health needs.
Most doctors say they have not recommended any general health and wellness apps or wearables to their patients. (Source: Kantar)
For medical-grade devices, the results are similar, with 70% of doctors saying they have not recommended medical-grade web-connected devices to their patients. (Source: Kantar).
Millennials, who usually have a high adoption rate of digital health, is failing as they are the most obese generation.
Most Americans are concerned about their weight and understand the connection between weight and cardiovascular health, but a substantial proportion of them are not doing much to lose excess weight, according to a Cleveland Clinic survey.

igital health global venture capital broke records again in 2018 with 698 deals raising a total of $9.5bn.
Funding for the digital health sector continues to rise, at a 32% increase year-over-year – a pace that will be difficult to maintain this funding pace going into 2019 unless there is “a clear exit path for investors,”.
In the United States, digital health companies raised close to $7 billion in 2018 with the remaining $2.5 billion coming out of other countries.
Most doctors say they have not recommended any general health and wellness apps or wearables to their patients. (Source: Kantar)
For medical-grade devices, the results are similar, with 70% of doctors saying they have not recommended medical-grade web-connected devices to their patients. (Source: Kantar).