1、TECH TREND REPORT August 2019The Future of Digital Health?1The pace and scale of digital health technology adoptions have accelerated over the past three years across the value chain.While high-profile setbacks such as Theranos tempered investor sentiment,two digital health startups,California-based

2、 diabetes management company Livongo and Utah-based health software firm Health Catalyst,recently made their market debuts in July this year,signaling an end to the three-year IPO drought in digital health.This report has been created in collaboration with the Plug and Play Health and Insurtech vert

3、icals.Our goal is to share some of the most prominent trends we have observed and a sample of the most notable startups that are helping to drive the healthcare transformation.The trends weve highlighted in this report-Digital Diagnostics,Remote Patient Monitoring,and On Demand Care-represent areas

4、where weve witnessed significant startup activities,and where our corporate partners have expressed strong interests in exploring.?2Through digital diagnostics,automated health assessments can be done electronically and virtually.This is especially useful in early disease prevention and prediction,w

5、ith the vision that it wont be too late any more for patients to treat themselves with incurable disease.For instance,nowadays we see a number of digital health startups pioneering research-back mobile solutions to help assess brain health and detect early symptoms of dementia,which is incurable onc

6、e diagnosed.The cost of healthcare and long-term case for individuals with Alzheimers disease or other dementias are substantial as$341,840 in 2018,according to the world Alzheimer report 2018.Many pharmaceuticals have attempted clinical trials on Alzheimers cure,but no one has seen any luck.Biogen