internet_information_highway_usedA new report from Becker’s Hospital Review suggests that legacy systems are posing significant challenges for digital health startups.

“The outlook for healthcare startup success isn’t great — an Accenture report finds half of digital health startups are expected to fail within two years. But perhaps some of these failures are no fault of the company and instead are the result of an inhospitable technology environment. In a contributed piece for Tech Crunch, John Sung Kim, founder of Five9 and DoctorBase, wrote startups face significant hurdles when trying to integrate with legacy systems. Longstanding vendors aren’t willing to integrate with new software and platforms, whether for political, economic or any other reasons, Mr. Kim wrote.”

Get the full story at Becker’s Hospital Review.