{
  "slug": "us-healthtech",
  "name": "US Digital Health",
  "updated": "2026-09-20",
  "page": "https://godofstartups.com/atlas/markets/us-healthtech",
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "facts": [
    {
      "metric": "ACA marketplace out-of-pocket maximum, individual, US",
      "value": "10600",
      "unit": "USD/year",
      "geo": "US",
      "period": "2026",
      "tier": 1,
      "status": "ready",
      "url": "https://www.healthcare.gov/glossary/out-of-pocket-maximum-limit/"
    },
    {
      "metric": "Adults using online channels to access medical test results",
      "value": "46.1",
      "unit": "% of adults who used the Internet in the past 12 months to look up medical test results",
      "geo": "United States",
      "period": "2022-07/2022-12",
      "tier": 1,
      "status": "ready",
      "url": "https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db482.htm"
    },
    {
      "metric": "US adults using the internet to communicate with a doctor or doctor's office",
      "value": "41.5",
      "unit": "percent of US adults (18+) who used the internet in the past 12 months to communicate with a doctor or doctor's office, Jul-Dec 2022",
      "geo": "United States",
      "period": "2022-07/2022-12",
      "tier": 1,
      "status": "ready",
      "url": "https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db482.htm"
    },
    {
      "metric": "Online communication with a doctor's office, US women",
      "value": "47.2",
      "unit": "percent",
      "geo": "US",
      "period": "2022",
      "tier": 1,
      "status": "ready",
      "url": "https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db482.htm"
    },
    {
      "metric": "US adults using the Internet to look for health or medical information, past 12 months",
      "value": "58.5",
      "unit": "percent",
      "geo": "US",
      "period": "2022",
      "tier": 1,
      "status": "ready",
      "url": "https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db482.htm"
    },
    {
      "metric": "Telemedicine use by family income under 100% FPL, US adults, 2022 (NHIS)",
      "value": "33.1",
      "unit": "percent of income cohort",
      "geo": "United States",
      "period": "2022",
      "tier": 1,
      "status": "ready",
      "url": "https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhsr/nhsr205.pdf"
    },
    {
      "metric": "Online health information lookup, US women",
      "value": "63.3",
      "unit": "percent",
      "geo": "US",
      "period": "2022",
      "tier": 1,
      "status": "ready",
      "url": "https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db482.htm"
    },
    {
      "metric": "US nursing and residential care facilities firms and establishments",
      "value": "43215 firms; 95137 establishments",
      "unit": "count",
      "geo": "United States",
      "period": "2022",
      "tier": 1,
      "status": "ready",
      "url": "https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/susb/tables/2022/us_state_6digitnaics_2022.xlsx"
    },
    {
      "metric": "Physicians able to provide similar quality of care during telemedicine visits",
      "value": "76.7%",
      "unit": "% of primary care physicians; medical specialists 73.1%; surgical specialists 50.6%",
      "geo": "United States",
      "period": "2021",
      "tier": 1,
      "status": "ready",
      "url": "https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db493.htm"
    },
    {
      "metric": "Urban-rural gap in adult telemedicine use",
      "value": "40.3 / 27.5",
      "unit": "% of adults using telemedicine in past 12 months: large central metropolitan counties / noncore areas",
      "geo": "United States",
      "period": "2021",
      "tier": 1,
      "status": "ready",
      "url": "https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db445.htm"
    },
    {
      "metric": "Telemedicine not appropriate for specialty or patients by physician specialty",
      "value": "surgical: 49.7 / medical: 26.7 / primary care: 15.5",
      "unit": "% of physicians reporting telemedicine technology was not appropriate",
      "geo": "United States",
      "period": "2021",
      "tier": 1,
      "status": "ready",
      "url": "https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db493.htm"
    },
    {
      "metric": "Physician dissatisfaction with telemedicine technology by specialty",
      "value": "primary care: 18.5 / surgical: 25.2 / medical: 20.6",
      "unit": "% of physicians dissatisfied with telemedicine technology for patient visits",
      "geo": "United States",
      "period": "2021",
      "tier": 1,
      "status": "ready",
      "url": "https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db493.htm"
    },
    {
      "metric": "Adults using telemedicine in the past 12 months",
      "value": "37.0",
      "unit": "% of adults aged 18 and over who used telemedicine in the past 12 months",
      "geo": "United States",
      "period": "2021",
      "tier": 1,
      "status": "ready",
      "url": "https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db445.htm"
    },
    {
      "metric": "Surgical specialists unable to provide similar quality of care via telemedicine",
      "value": "42.4%",
      "unit": "% of surgical specialists responding not at all or to a small extent; primary care 19.2%, medical specialists 20.4%",
      "geo": "United States",
      "period": "2021",
      "tier": 1,
      "status": "ready",
      "url": "https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db493.htm"
    },
    {
      "metric": "US medical laboratories annual payroll, Census CBP NAICS 621511",
      "value": "12413795",
      "unit": "USD thousand annual payroll",
      "geo": "US",
      "period": "2020",
      "tier": 1,
      "status": "ready",
      "url": "https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/cbp/datasets/2020/cbp20us.zip"
    },
    {
      "metric": "US medical laboratories establishments, Census CBP NAICS 621511",
      "value": "11410",
      "unit": "establishments",
      "geo": "US",
      "period": "2020",
      "tier": 1,
      "status": "ready",
      "url": "https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/cbp/datasets/2020/cbp20us.zip"
    },
    {
      "metric": "Outpatient physicians' work time spent solely on EHR input while not directly engaged in patient care",
      "value": "20.7",
      "unit": "% of work time",
      "geo": "US",
      "period": "2017-01 to 2018-05",
      "tier": 1,
      "status": "ready",
      "url": "https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7661623/"
    },
    {
      "metric": "Outpatient physicians' work time spent inputting data into an EHR",
      "value": "44.9",
      "unit": "% of work time",
      "geo": "US",
      "period": "2017-01 to 2018-05",
      "tier": 1,
      "status": "ready",
      "url": "https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7661623/"
    },
    {
      "metric": "Estimated time savings from advanced EHR skills training",
      "value": "4-5",
      "unit": "minutes per hour",
      "geo": "Southern California, US",
      "period": "2014-2016",
      "tier": 1,
      "status": "ready",
      "url": "https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6160120/"
    },
    {
      "metric": "Consumer satisfaction/willingness to repeat virtual health visits",
      "value": "more than 90%",
      "unit": "% of US consumers who had a virtual health visit and would be willing to have another",
      "geo": "US",
      "period": "2025",
      "tier": 2,
      "status": "proxy",
      "url": "https://www.deloitte.com/us/en/insights/industry/health-care/life-sciences-and-health-care-industry-outlooks/2026-us-health-care-executive-outlook.html"
    }
  ],
  "note": "status: ready = two or more independent sources or an official series; proxy = one source; context = macro background, not a validation figure."
}