美国直接向消费者销售的数字医疗公司提供的人口和健康领域,2011-2023年:跨部门研究
Ashwini Nagappan1, Xi Zhu1, Corrina Moucheraud2
1Department of Health Policy and Management, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, 650 Charles Young Dr. S, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States, 1 310 825 2594.
JMIR formative research
|November 28, 2025
概括
直向消费者 (DTC) 数字健康公司正在增长,其中大多数专注于妇女和心理健康. 这些公司虽然在扩张,但很少针对农村或医疗补助人口,这引发了人们对公平获得护理的担忧.
科学领域:
- 数字健康数字健康
- 医疗保健服务研究 医疗服务研究
- 健康 公平 卫生 公平
背景情况:
- 直接向消费者 (DTC) 数字健康公司提供诸如处方和心理健康应用程序等服务,在传统医疗保健之外运营.
- 它们日益增长的存在需要了解它们的目标人群,健康领域以及评估质量,成本和公平性的技术.
- 人们对这些快速增长的DTC数字健康公司的特点知之甚少.
研究的目的:
- 描述2011年至2023年美国DTC数字健康公司的增长和重点.
- 检查这些公司的目标人群,健康领域和区分技术.
- 为评估DTC数字健康对公平获得护理的影响提供基础.
主要方法:
- 岩石健康数字健康风险投资数据库 (2011-2023) 的横截面描述性分析.
- 包括478家独家DTC数字健康公司,这些公司至少获得了200万美元的资金.
- 提取并验证了公司特征的数据,包括创立年份,地位,资金,目标人群,健康领域和技术.
主要成果:
- DTC数字健康公司稳步增长,在2020年达到顶峰,到2023年为93.1%活跃.
- 女性是最受攻击的人群 (14.6%),其次是儿童/青少年 (7.5%). 心理健康 (16.7%) 和生殖/孕产妇健康 (14.9%) 是常见的领域.
- 远程医疗 (22.6%),可穿戴设备/生物传感器 (19.5%) 和AI/ML (13.2%) 是领先的技术. 针对农村/医疗补助人口的公司很少见 (2.1%).
结论:
- 对DTC数字医疗公司的系统监测对于评估它们对公平医疗保健准入的贡献至关重要.
- 结果为评估这些模型是否满足健康需求,覆盖多种人群,并影响医疗保健成本提供了基础.
- 需要进一步的研究来了解DTC数字健康对医疗保健领域的全部影响.
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