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So what exactly is Digital Health?
Good question. It's hard to find a universally accepted definition. The Digital Health List is a database of any company tackling a health problem with 21st century technology or 21st century business models. Paul Sonnier at The Story of Digital Health has a good and broad definition:
Digital Health is the convergence of the digital and genomic revolutions with health, healthcare, living, and society. More...
We're not picky. If there's a company developing new health tech, making people healthier, or making healthcare easier for anyone, they'll be on our list.
What is the goal of The Digital Heath List?
The goal of The Digital Health List is to be a complete, crowdsourced database of digital health companies and what they do. It's a consolidated resource for doctors, patients, and other startups to see which companies are tackling which health problems and with which approaches. Possible use-cases of The Digital Health List include:
Brainstorm Tool: Filter through all the companies doing all activity tracking. There are lot of companies doing tracking for cyclists and runners but maybe no-one developing specific algorithms for XYZ sport... this could be you!
Pre-Startup Phase: Thinking of entering a particular market? See all the other companies tackling that same problem.
Understand Market Trends: What types of digital health companies have gotten the most funding? From who? What companies have most recently been founded? Understand the Digital Health market by having information at your fingertips.
How do I reference The Digital Health List?
The Digital Health List by Lina A. Colucci is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. This means that you can use the information for non-commercial and educational purposes but must always reference where it came from. Please get in touch for using the database for commercial purposes.
Here's how to reference the database:
Colucci, Lina Avancini. The Digital Health List. www.digitalhealthlist.com. [The date you accessed it.]