Just 5 percent of health organizations are operating at the highest level of digital health innovation for proficiency and expertise, according to Enspektos, an innovation consultancy conducting several waves as part of its State of Digital Health Innovation Study. 

This research initiative is designed to help the global health ecosystem understand how organizations are progressing in their digital innovation efforts. The majority of organizations globally are in the digital health pilot testing and experimentation phase, the firm revealed, and progress is slow even in relatively mature technology areas such as social media and mobile. Organizations do not yet have sufficient technical expertise or budgetary resources to efficiently scale their innovation efforts.

"As we see from this study, digital health is accelerating due to many driving forces, including technology, economic dynamics, policy and the consumerization of healthcare," said Chris Edwards, chief marketing officer for Validic, which sponsored this research. "This research is more evidence that health organizations are moving from talking about to actually doing digital health."

Enspektos fielded Wave 1 of the State of Digital Health Innovation Study between December 2015 and February 2016. More than 360 individuals working at health organizations (hospitals, pharmaceutical firms, payers) or their partners (technology firms, startups, etc.) from around the world were recruited via email and other channels. 

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