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Building Digital Healthcare Ecosystems: The Future of Digital Health, 2040

Publisher Frost & Sullivan
Published Nov 24, 2025
Length 42 Pages
SKU # MC20611369

Description

This study charts how digital health ecosystems are likely to form and scale through 2040 and what that implies for providers, payers, technology vendors, and retail/community partners. We define a digital health ecosystem as an interoperable platform that coordinates people, data, and decisions across home, retail, and hospital settings—secured by shared trust services for identity, consent, provenance, and security.

Using a simple segmentation—care journey (pre/at/post; lifelong prevention), technological capabilities (data and interoperability, AI/agents, experience, security and governance), and ecosystem actors (patients/caregivers, providers, payers, retail/community, public and tech partners)—the report describes a shift from episodic, place-based care to continuous, agent-supported services delivered near home. Key trends include AI–human convergence (digital doctor co-pilots), decentralization from hospitals to people, patient-managed data portability, and continuous evidence pipelines that connect care to payment.

Growth is propelled by maturing AI agents, cloud–edge platforms, interoperability mandates, longevity and multimorbidity, outcome-oriented economics, and cybersecurity becoming a buying requirement. Restraints to manage include regulatory and liability uncertainty, uneven digital maturity and human–technology integration, equity and access gaps, misaligned incentives, and rising cyber/model risks.

The study identifies high-potential opportunities and specifies what vendors must get right: platform trust, API/data liquidity, assurance and observability, outcome reporting, and ecosystem partnerships. A staged enabling-technologies roadmap (2024–2040) translates these findings into near-term pilots and scalable paths to 2040.

Table of Contents

42 Pages
Research Scope
Scope of Analysis
Segmentation
Strategic Imperatives
Why is it Increasingly Difficult to Grow?
The Strategic Imperative 8™
The Impact of the Top 3 Strategic Imperatives on the Digital Health Ecosystems Industry
Growth Opportunity Analysis
Growth Drivers
Growth Restraints
What is a Digital Health Ecosystem?
Vision 2040: What Care Looks Like
Longevity & Demand Shock
Prevention & Continuous Monitoring
Data & Interoperability: From Snapshots to Streams
AI–Human Convergence & Digital Doctors
AI Value Proposition Shift: From Tools to Outcomes Services
Agentic Care Services: What Buyers Purchase in 2040
Healthcare Infrastructure Decentralization—From Hospital to People
Smart Hospitals: Moving Beyond Digitization Toward Integrated, AI-Powered Ecosystems
Hospitals of the Future—Advantages and Technology Focus
Mental Health & Digital Therapeutics—Stepped Care, Signal Driven
Cybersecurity and Patient Data Safety
Workforce & Organization: Today vs 2040
Operating Model Shift to 2040
Enabling Technologies Roadmap 2024-2040
Growth Opportunity Universe
Growth Opportunity 1: Mental Health and Digital Therapeutics
Growth Opportunity 2: Preventive and Predictive Healthcare
Growth Opportunity 3: Interoperability
Appendix & Next Steps
Benefits and Impacts of Growth Opportunities
Next Steps
List of Exhibits
Legal Disclaimer

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