Newest Digital Health Programs Address Digestive Disease Management

The following is a guest article by Bill Snyder is CEO of Vivante Health. More than 70 million Americans suffer from a wide gamut of digestive diseases, but until recently few digital health solutions were available to help them manage their conditions. There are smartphone apps for tracking everything from exercise, sleep and calorie consumption to blood pressure, COVID-19 symptoms and even diabetes management, but gut health has largely been left in the digital dust – in part because there is no one-size-fits-all solution for a category spanning so many different disorders. Today that’s changing as health tech companies begin to tackle the toll that chronic digestive disease takes on patients, productivity and healthcare costs. Reducing Medical Spend & GI Symptoms On the patient side, the havoc wreaked by GI disease includes debilitating effects like nausea, constipation and diarrhea as well as a staggering 8.3 million emergency room visits annually for digestive complaints. (Abdominal pain is the #1 cause of acute ER admissions.) On the medical spend and productivity side, the toll includes $136 billion in annual medical claims – exceeding the total healthcare bill for trauma, mental health and even heart disease – along with a per-person cost of up to $72,000 in yearly prescription drugs and up to 35 days of absenteeism per year. GI issues are also among the top five healthcare expenses for many companies. Early efforts to utilize digital health programs to ad...
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