ASTOUNDCOMMERCE.COM ASTOUND HEALTH REPORT 2023 Reasons for Not Using + Digital Therapeutics 2021 2022 Remote Monitoring 2021 2022 58% Patients are comfortable with remote health Using a SMART DEVICE that will collect your I would rather communicate monitoring for a wider array of reasons: Substantial health data (e.g., blood pressure, blood sugar, etc.) majorities (at least 64 percent for each category) in real time, which is then stored in an app and sent directly with someone in person to your healthcare provider 50% worldwide are comfortable with using smart devices to collect health data in real time or to help with treatment and with using at-home diagnostic testing. 64 percent of respondents said they would 68% 11% use a smart device to help in treatment or recovery, 70% an increase of 10 percent from 2021, and 67 It’s too difficult to log on percent reported comfort with at-home diagnostic 8% testing, an increase of 6 percent from 2021. 12% I don’t have the technology needed to use it Using a SMART DEVICE to aid in your treatment 10% and/or recovery from an injury, illness, or disease 64% 6% 58% I can only pay in cash / I don’t have a credit card 6% 16% I don’t have any issues that would + require this form of therapy Remote health monitoring is Using an at-home diagnostic test 16% becoming a routine part of (e.g., genetics test for diseases, blood test to check the healthcare experience cholesterol/vitamin deficiencies, etc.) I would need more information 67% before I can consider using it 32% 63% My insurance won’t cover it, and I am 10% concerned with the cost/affordability Figure 22: Reasons given for not using digital therapeutics among Figure 23: Year-over-year comparison of respondents who report being those who report they would not be open to using them in the future. Year-over-year comparison provided where available. comfortable with remote monitoring in each of the listed scenarios. 30 31