Digital Health Startups Lack Clinical Credibility, Half Not Reliable

This illustration photo taken in Los Angeles on April 6, 2021 shows a person looking at the app for the New York State Excelsior Pass, which provides digital proof of a COVID-19 vaccination, in front of a screen showing the New York skyline. Chris Delmas/AFP via Getty Images

A study on American-based digital health start-ups has found that nearly half—44 percent—of digital health startups lack credibility clinically, with a general lack of robustness in clinical findings.

“Many venture-backed startups in digital health have limited clinical robustness (reliability),” the authors wrote in the study.