Med-Tech Innovation July 8, 2020
Cyndi Williams, CEO and founder at Quin, discusses why the digital and healthcare industries need to combine forces to harness the full potential health apps have to offer.
There are more than 300,000 health-related apps available from leading app stores worldwide – a number which has more than doubled in the past five years. In line with this astonishing growth, the number of digital health apps has also doubled since 2015, and is expected to be worth over $100 billion by 2023.
Whereas the traditional medical R&D process is incredibly expensive and time-consuming, app development offers an exciting alternative. Although the smartphone may never supersede medical devices, it is nonetheless an invaluable repository of lifestyle and behavioural data with...