The annual reports that set the agenda.

Funding reports, market analyses, vendor scorecards, and research from Rock Health, CB Insights, KLAS, McKinsey, AHA, Stanford HAI, Peterson Health Technology Institute, and more — the documents the digital health industry actually cites.

This page indexes 41 leading digital health reports, whitepapers, and research publications across five categories: funding and investment reports, market and adoption research, EHR and vendor performance benchmarks, AI in healthcare research, and clinician and consumer sentiment surveys.

Featured publishers include Rock Health, CB Insights, KLAS Research, McKinsey & Company, Bain & Company, Bessemer Venture Partners, Stanford HAI, the American Medical Association, the American Hospital Association, Peterson Health Technology Institute, HIMSS, Deloitte, PwC, Pew Research Center, Kaiser Family Foundation, ECRI, the Coalition for Health AI, the World Health Organization, and the National Academy of Medicine.

Curated by Daniel Kraft, MD, Stanford- and Harvard-trained physician-scientist and Founder of Digital.Health.

Common questions this index answers: What is the leading digital health funding report? Where do I find independent assessments of digital health technologies? Which reports cover AI in healthcare? How do I track consumer adoption of digital health? What is the Peterson Health Technology Institute (PHTI)? What is the difference between Rock Health and CB Insights for digital health funding? Where do investors get digital health market data? Are these digital health reports free to access? How often are these digital health reports updated?

Topics covered: digital health venture capital, healthcare private equity, generative AI in healthcare, EHR vendor performance, clinician EHR satisfaction, ambient AI documentation, telehealth coverage and utilization, healthcare consumer behavior, physician AI sentiment, FDA AI device approvals, healthcare workforce, and patient safety in health technology.

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Digital health moves fast — but every funding number, adoption stat, and vendor benchmark cited in a board deck or pitch traces back to a small set of annual reports and surveys. This clinician-curated index covers the leading digital health reports and whitepapers — where the field’s agenda-setting research actually lives: who’s getting funded, what’s getting adopted, which vendors are performing, and where the evidence on AI in medicine stands today. Each entry links to the publisher’s hub or its most recent edition. Organized into five categories: funding & investment, market & adoption, EHR & vendor performance, AI in healthcare, and clinician & consumer sentiment.

01 · Funding & Investment

Where the capital flows.

08 reports

Quarterly and year-end venture funding reports, healthcare private equity analyses, and global investment trackers. The numbers behind every “state of the market” slide.

Rock Health Capital & Advisory
FlagshipQuarterly

The most widely cited U.S. digital health funding tracker. Quarterly market overviews and year-end reports on venture capital, mega deals, M&A, IPOs, and value proposition trends — covering U.S. digital health since 2011.

CB Insights
FlagshipGated

Quarterly and annual reports on global digital health funding, deal volume, mega-rounds, unicorns, and M&A — with proprietary Mosaic scoring for high-momentum startups. The complement to Rock Health on the global side.

Bessemer Venture Partners
AnnualOpen Access

Bessemer’s annual deep dive on health tech and health AI — investment trends, IPO momentum, the BVP Health Tech Index, and predictions for the next year. The view from one of digital health’s most active VCs.

SVB · First Citizens
Annual

Mid-year and year-end report on healthcare venture investment, exits, and IPO trends across biopharma, healthtech, dx/tools, and devices. Particularly strong on the venture-debt and exit perspective from the leading healthcare bank.

RockHealth.org
InnovationOpen Access

The Rock Health nonprofit’s research arm — focused on building for impact, equitable innovation, and underserved populations. Pairs with the .com funding insights for a complete view of where capital flows and where it doesn’t.

02 · Market & Adoption

The state of the industry.

09 reports

Annual outlooks from the major consultancies, hospital association trend reports, and the cross-cutting buyer surveys that quantify what health systems and payers are actually deploying.

McKinsey & Company
SurveyOpen Access

McKinsey’s longitudinal survey of healthcare leaders on generative AI adoption across payers, providers, and HST groups — tracking deployment, ROI, and use case prioritization since 2023.

McKinsey & Company
Hub

McKinsey’s master healthcare insights hub spanning provider, payer, healthcare services & technology, business building, consumer health, behavioral health, and public health — the surface area for “What to expect in US healthcare” annual outlooks.

Deloitte Insights
AnnualOpen Access

Annual survey of 180+ C-suite executives across major markets covering financial pressures, workforce, AI integration, and care model transformation. The view from health system leadership across the U.S., U.K., Australia, Canada, Germany, and the Netherlands.

PwC Health Research Institute
Annual

PwC’s annual list of the issues reshaping the U.S. health industry — payer-provider dynamics, regulatory change, AI integration, and consumer expectations. Pairs with the HRI consumer surveys for a buyer-side and consumer-side picture.

Bain & Company · Bessemer · AWS
SurveyFlagship

A survey of 400+ senior healthcare executives across payers, providers, and pharma on AI adoption — combining Bain’s strategy lens, Bessemer’s investor view, and AWS’s infrastructure perspective into a single buyer-side index.

American Hospital Association
Environmental ScanOpen Access

AHA’s Environmental Scan and weekly Market Scan trend briefs — the U.S. hospital sector’s view on workforce, financial health, technology adoption, and clinical innovation. The view from the buyer side of digital health.

KFF (Kaiser Family Foundation)
AnnualOpen Access

KFF’s annual Employer Health Benefits Survey, telehealth coverage tracking, and ongoing health cost research. The reference for U.S. health spending, employer plan design, and Medicare policy — the financial backdrop every digital health business plan has to fit into.

03 · EHR, Vendor & System Performance

The independent evaluators.

08 reports

Independent technology assessments, EHR satisfaction benchmarks, and vendor performance rankings. The reports buyers actually use when shortlisting a digital health solution.

KLAS Research
FlagshipAnnual

The standard for clinician EHR experience benchmarking, with 600,000+ clinician responses across 300+ healthcare organizations. Annual reports on EHR satisfaction, burnout, ambient AI impact, training, and the Net EHR Experience Score (NEES).

KLAS Research
Annual

The annual vendor performance rankings across software and services categories — EHR, RCM, telehealth, ambient documentation, patient engagement, and more. The standard buyer-side reference for vendor selection.

Peterson Health Technology Institute
EvidenceFlagship

Rigorous, independent, evidence-based assessments of digital health technologies analyzing both clinical effectiveness and economic impact — covering virtual MSK, digital diabetes, hypertension, GI conditions, administrative AI, and more. The “what works” reference for payers, providers, and investors.

HIMSS
Maturity ModelGlobal

HIMSS’ global benchmark for digital health maturity, scoring health systems across four dimensions — governance & workforce, interoperability, predictive analytics, and person-enabled health. Used by health systems worldwide as the standardized digital transformation roadmap.

Black Book Research
User SurveyGated

Buyer-perspective surveys of health IT users across EHR, RCM, population health, patient engagement, cybersecurity, and HIM software — ranking vendors on user satisfaction, support, and outcomes from clinician and administrator feedback.

Chilmark Research
ResearchGated

Independent analyst reports on healthcare IT markets — analytics, interoperability, care management, population health, provider-payer convergence, and AI/ML in healthcare. The boutique alternative to the mega-analyst firms.

Forrester Research
Wave ReportsGated

Forrester’s evaluative Wave reports on healthcare CRM, patient engagement, virtual care platforms, healthcare AI agents, and clinical decision support — with quadrant-style vendor positioning across strategy and current offering.

Gartner
Hype CycleGated

Gartner’s annual Hype Cycle for Digital Care Delivery, plus Magic Quadrants on related categories. The framework executives reference when explaining where ambient AI, virtual care, RPM, and clinical AI sit on the maturity curve.

04 · AI in Healthcare

Where the evidence on AI lives.

08 reports

The reports tracking AI in medicine — benchmarks and milestones, physician sentiment, ethical frameworks, and the governance documents shaping how AI gets deployed in clinical care.

Stanford HAI
FlagshipAnnualOpen Access

The most comprehensive open dataset on AI progress, with an expanded Science & Medicine chapter developed with RAISE Health (Stanford Medicine + HAI). FDA AI device approvals, clinical AI benchmark performance, ethics publication trends.

ONC · ASTP · HHS
FederalOpen Access

The federal source for U.S. EHR adoption rates, interoperability metrics, patient access, and clinician health IT use — with longitudinal trends and the Annual Report to Congress framing the policy environment.

Coalition for Health AI
FrameworkOpen Access

The multi-stakeholder coalition publishing assurance standards, model cards, and evaluation frameworks for responsible AI in healthcare — a key reference for health systems setting up AI governance and evaluation programs.

World Health Organization
GlobalOpen Access

WHO’s foundational guidance on the ethics and governance of AI for health — the international reference policymakers, ministries of health, and global health programs cite when shaping national AI in health frameworks.

National Academy of Medicine
Code of ConductOpen Access

NAM’s framework for safe, effective, equitable AI in health, health care, and biomedical science — informed by senior leaders across academic medicine, federal agencies, industry, and patient advocacy. The U.S. consensus document.

05 · Clinician & Consumer Sentiment

How people are using digital health.

08 reports

The longitudinal surveys tracking how patients, consumers, and clinicians actually engage with digital health — from telehealth utilization to consumer adoption to system performance.

Rock Health
FlagshipAnnual

The longest-running U.S. consumer benchmark on digital health adoption — tracking telemedicine, wearables, online health information, AI chatbot use, and health data sharing willingness across age, income, and condition status.

Pew Research Center
SurveyOpen Access

Pew’s longitudinal nationally representative surveys on Americans’ use of online health information, AI chatbots, social media for health, and trust in providers vs. other health information sources.

KFF (Kaiser Family Foundation)
PolicyOpen Access

KFF’s running tracker of Medicare telehealth coverage, utilization rates by demographic, and the policy flexibilities driving virtual care reimbursement — the reference for telehealth payment policy questions.

Peterson Center on Healthcare · KFF
ResearchOpen Access

The Peterson-KFF partnership on U.S. health system performance — spending trends, quality metrics, access, and international comparisons. The framing data underlying nearly every digital health “broken system” investor narrative.

The Commonwealth Fund
ResearchOpen Access

The Commonwealth Fund’s longitudinal cross-country surveys of health system performance — comparing access, affordability, equity, and digital adoption across the U.S. and 9–10 peer high-income nations. The international benchmarking lens.

University of Michigan IHPI
PollOpen Access

University of Michigan’s nationally representative poll of older adults on health, healthcare, and digital tool use — the reference for telehealth, wearables, and patient portal adoption among the population that consumes the most healthcare.

ECRI
AnnualSafety

ECRI’s annual list of the most pressing patient-safety risks from healthcare technology — AI-related risks, cybersecurity, medical device safety, and clinical alarm fatigue. The patient-safety counterweight to enthusiasm-led adoption reports.

Frequently asked

Questions readers ask.

What is the leading digital health funding report?
Rock Health’s quarterly and year-end funding overviews and CB Insights’ State of Digital Health are the two most widely cited funding reports in U.S. digital health. Galen Growth’s HealthTech Alpha and Bain’s Global Healthcare Private Equity Report cover the global and PE perspectives. StartUp Health Insights and SVB’s Healthcare Investments and Exits round out the picture. See the full funding & investment section.
Where do I find independent assessments of digital health technologies?
The Peterson Health Technology Institute (PHTI) is the leading source for rigorous, independent, evidence-based assessments of digital health solutions — covering domains like virtual MSK, digital diabetes, hypertension, GI conditions, and administrative AI. KLAS Arch Collaborative is the standard for clinician EHR experience benchmarking. ECRI publishes the annual Top 10 Health Technology Hazards. See the full EHR & vendor performance section.
Which reports cover AI in healthcare?
Stanford HAI’s AI Index includes an expanded Science & Medicine chapter. Bessemer Venture Partners publishes State of Health AI annually. The Bain & Company / Bessemer / AWS Healthcare AI Adoption Index surveys 400+ healthcare buyers. McKinsey’s generative AI in healthcare survey tracks payer, provider, and HST adoption. The AMA Physician Survey on Augmented Intelligence is the primary source for U.S. physician sentiment on health AI. See the full AI in healthcare section.
How do I track consumer adoption of digital health?
Rock Health’s Consumer Adoption of Digital Health survey is the longest-running U.S. consumer benchmark. Pew Research Center publishes regular reports on Americans’ use of health information online and AI in health care. Accenture’s Life Trends and KFF telehealth tracking add additional consumer-side perspectives. The University of Michigan’s National Poll on Healthy Aging covers older adults specifically. See the full clinician & consumer sentiment section.
What is the Peterson Health Technology Institute?
PHTI is an independent non-profit founded in 2023 by the Peterson Center on Healthcare that provides rigorous, evidence-based assessments of digital health technologies, analyzing both clinical effectiveness and economic impact. Its assessment reports have become reference points for payers, providers, and investors evaluating which digital health tools actually deliver value.
Are these reports free to access?
Most government, academic, and foundation reports are free (Stanford HAI, AMA, ONC, KFF, Peterson, WHO, NAM, Pew, KLAS Arch summary insights). Many advisory and consulting reports are partially free with executive summaries (McKinsey, Deloitte, PwC, Bain insights, Bessemer Atlas). Subscription services such as CB Insights, Gartner, Forrester, and Black Book typically require a paid account for the full report.
What is the difference between Rock Health and CB Insights for digital health funding?
Rock Health focuses on U.S.-based digital health funding with deep editorial coverage and quarterly market overviews tracking deal volume, mega-rounds, unicorns, and value proposition trends since 2011. CB Insights covers global digital health with proprietary deal data, Mosaic momentum scoring, and quarterly reports including European and Asian markets. Both are widely cited; investors and operators often reference both.
Where do investors get digital health market data?
Investors typically rely on a stack of sources: Rock Health and CB Insights for U.S. and global venture funding, Bain Global Healthcare Private Equity Report for PE deal flow, Galen Growth HealthTech Alpha for global ecosystem coverage, and SVB for institutional deal data. Bessemer’s State of Health AI provides thematic AI investment analysis, and Stanford HAI’s AI Index provides the macro AI context.
How often are these reports updated?
Most are annual or quarterly. Rock Health and CB Insights publish quarterly funding overviews plus year-end summaries. Stanford HAI’s AI Index, KLAS Arch Collaborative, AMA Augmented Intelligence Survey, Deloitte Global Health Care Outlook, Bain Global Healthcare PE Report, and Bessemer State of Health AI all publish annually. AHA Center for Health Innovation Market Scan publishes weekly trend briefs.
How should I cite a digital health report?
Most digital health reports follow standard citation conventions: publisher name, report title, edition or year, and direct URL. For example: “Rock Health, ‘2025 year-end digital health funding overview,’ January 2026, https://rockhealth.com/insights/.” Annual reports such as Stanford HAI’s AI Index and the AMA Physician Survey on Augmented Intelligence include suggested citation formats on their landing pages.

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Last reviewed and updated May 9, 2026. Curated by Digital.Health. Suggest a report we should add: info@digital.health.