Digital health is one of the fast-growing segments of the healthcare market, with patients, clinicians and regulators increasingly aligned behind the opportunities that digitization presents.

Over the last three years, patients and clinicians alike have embraced digitally delivered care and telehealth- related flexibilities. In 2022, we saw state legislative and regulatory activity centered around states making key temporary COVID-19 flexibilities permanent or adjusting previously enacted telehealth laws and regulations. The increase in digitally delivered healthcare activity has led to an increased focus on the privacy and security of patient and consumer data in 2022. We also observed increasing federal attention to fraud and abuse risks associated with telehealth. Separately, the ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization forced digital women’s health providers to examine, and sometimes change, their operations in response to state law requirements.