As we approach 2025, digital health innovators face both an exciting and rapidly evolving landscape. Not only is technology changing at breakneck speed, expectations from patients, regulatory changes, and social and economic influences are affecting how care is provided and received. Here are a few things that lie ahead:

Funding:

Funding in 2025 is expected to increase with a focus on AI-enabled solutions, especially those that can improve patient outcomes, operational efficiency, and clinical value. Investors are showing interest in advanced wearables, personalized medicine, and solutions that can power clinical optimization and administrative tasks.

Data quality, quantity, and diversity:

While plenty of healthcare data sources will become available, the focus will be on high-quality, longitudinal and diverse data from across the globe. This data will be crucial to success—for building and training high-quality algorithms as well as reducing time and cost of innovation.

Interoperability:

Just as it was in 2024, overcoming interoperability challenges will be crucial in the new year. Health tech innovators will need to have a strong focus on developing technologies that are EHR agnostic. In 2025 and beyond, most digital health companies will seek a trusted partner who will take the complexity of deploying healthcare solutions into hospital workflows in a seamless and easy-to-integrate manner.

Engaging the users:

Digital health companies will begin actively including end users in the AI development process, partnering with expert clinicians who will ultimately use the AI solution to design, test, and refine it.

Trustworthy AI:

While regulations are still evolving, transparency in the development of digital health solutions and trustworthy deployment will become a collective responsibility. Clinicians and innovators are focused on fairness, transparency, and accountability and we will see a growing commitment to collaborative approaches to responsible AI.

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