By Mackenzie Garrity, Becker’s Hospital Review | August 23, 2019
Organizations across the country are investing more in digital health. According to an American Medical Association post, there has been a 29 percent annual increase in government-registered digital health studies in recent years.
Many of these studies focus on using digital health for cardiometabolic conditions, including heart disease, diabetes and stroke.
Analysts examined the most explored clinical categories for digital health. They published their findings in JAMA Internal Medicine. Below, are the top 13 clinical categories where digital health is being studied:
- Cardiometabolic: 21.4 percent
- Mental health: 12.1 percent
- Wellness: 10.2 percent
- Neurology: 6.4 percent
- Pulmonary: 6.3 percent
- Substance abuse: 6.3 percent
- Hematology-oncology: 6 percent
- Autoimmune: 4.7 percent
- Infectious disease: 4.3 percent
- Obstetrics-gynecology: 3.5 percent
- Musculoskeletal or pain: 3 percent
- Surgery: 1.8 percent
- Renal: 1.4 percent