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As Medical Cost Trend Remains Flat, Patients Face Growing Health Consumer Financial Stress

Health Populi

economy by 2026. The fourth graphic (labeled Figure 8) illustrates the percent of consumers likely to access new care options outside of bricks-and-mortar doctors’ offices if these services were lower cost: 56% of people would use telehealth via smartphone for a dermatologist to examine a skin problem.

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What's next for Digital Therapeutics after it all went PEAR shaped?

Lloyd Price

Billion valuation and loss of a development deal with Otsuka Pharmaceuticals. Partnership and collaboration: Healthcare providers, pharmaceutical companies, and technology companies are likely to form more partnerships and collaborations to develop and commercialize DTx solutions. billion by 2026, growing at a CAGR of 17.8%