Digital Health

JANUARY 3, 2018

I started off the year with an interview with Oliver Wyman Health, one of the top global healthcare consulting firms. They asked me to offer some healthcare investment predictions for 2018. I figure this is a good way to start off the year so have reprinted a mildly expanded version of the article, which first […].

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MARCH 7, 2018

This week at the 2018 annual HIMSS conference, telehealth is playing a mainstream role in discussions about right-sizing and right-placing healthcare. The evidence for telehealth’s tipping point is rooted in new research published today by Accenture on Patients + Doctors + Machines, Accentures’ 2018 Consumer Survey on Digital Health.

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Mobi Health News

OCTOBER 25, 2018

billion in digital health deals. Over the quarter, MobiHealthNews tracked $3.3

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MARCH 10, 2020

Millions of dollars and developers’ time have been invested in conceiving and making digital health tools. Use of mobile apps to track personal health activity fell from nearly 1 in 2 consumers to 1 in 3. Use of wearable tech nearly halved, from 33% to 18%, between 2018 and 2020.

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OCTOBER 25, 2018

billion in digital health deals. Over the quarter, MobiHealthNews tracked $3.3

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OCTOBER 5, 2018

This quarter's M&A action includes big names looking to move into digital health as well as more niche offerings absorbing their competitors.

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AUGUST 24, 2020

Accenture probes this question in a report published today asking, How Can Leaders Make Recent Digital Health Gains Last? had adopted wearable technology for health tracking, a nearly 50% decline from 2019 (from 33% in 2018 to 18% in late 2019). The pandemic drove U.S.

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Mobi Health News

JULY 5, 2018

But that deal was just the capstone on a busy quarter with 15 digital health mergers and acquisitions. The area of digital health shaken up the most by deal activity this quarter was certainly telemedicine.

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 4, 2018

Rock Health and StartUp Health, two groups that track investment in digital health, have come out with their respective quarterly reports on funding in the space, and both agree on a couple of interesting insights: that Q1 2018 is the largest Q1 yet, that larger late-stage deals contributed disproportionately to that total, and that investment is increasingly (..)

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Mobi Health News

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

As providers around the globe continue rolling out digital health strategies, physician organizations are looking to implement guidelines.

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JULY 3, 2018

The first half of 2018 has been another standout six months for digital health investments, which comprised a total of $3.4 billion according to Rock Health’s latest midyear report.

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APRIL 6, 2018

In the last quarter the FDA gave the nod to 10 digital health devices. Innovations that aimed to help diabetes management were popular, ranging from the first integrated continuous glucose monitor, which was put out by Dexcom, to Glooko’s insulin titration tool.

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MAY 17, 2018

Sanofi’s approach to digital health is broad, but focused, Rachel Sha, the company’s vice president of digital business development and licensing, told MobiHealthNews in an interview ahead of next week’s BIO 2018 conference in Boston, where Sha will be speaking on a range of digital health-related topics.

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MARCH 2, 2021

But another patient side-effect of COVID-19 has been the digital transformation of many patients , documented by data gathered by Rock Health and Stanford Center for Digital Health and analyzed in their latest report explaining how the public health crisis accelerated digital health “beyond its years,” noted in the title of the report.

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Mobi Health News

MAY 31, 2018

It's official — Eric Carreel, cofounder of French health tech company Withings, has bought back Nokia’s digital health division two years after it was sold to the Finnish tech giant. Carreel plans to relaunch the Withings brand by the end of 2018, according to a statement. “I

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Mobi Health News

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

News and deals from Cigna, UnitedHealthcare, Anthem, Oscar Health, BCBS and others.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2018

MobiHealthNews tracked investments, pilots, partnerships and app launches from major pharma companies during the quarter.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 30, 2025

Most adults aged 50 to 80 in the United States are now using digital health technologies (DHTs), with patient portals leading adoption rates, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open. Socioeconomic factors further shaped adoption patterns.

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Mobi Health News

OCTOBER 11, 2018

A new report from StartUp Health Insights shows large, late-stage deals are driving the trend.

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MAY 18, 2018

Although it hasn’t yet established its place as a mainstream treatment modality, virtual reality has grown from an interesting diversion into a frequent topic of conversation within digital health.

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JUNE 5, 2018

It’s no secret investors have been pouring billions of dollars into digital health companies, and it seems the life sciences sector has taken notice. Today at BIO 2018 in Boston, a panel of investors sat down to take the pulse of the digital health industry and give their thoughts on the booming (and potentially crowded) market.

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OCTOBER 2, 2018

Rock Health's latest report highlights that higher value deals, not increased frequency, are driving the record funding.

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AUGUST 23, 2019

5,000 list of fastest growing companies in America, calling out the digital health and health tech companies that made the list. But in the meantime, for private companies, we have to take those numbers where we can find them, which is why each year MobiHealthNews parses Inc. Magazine's Inc.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2021

A systematic review published this past week in npj Digital Medicine examined the use of mobile and wearable digital health interventions to monitor patients after surgery. The team reviewed 44 articles that investigated the use of digital health tools in a post-surgical setting. THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 27, 2018

Looking for health information online is just part of being a normal, mainstream health consumer, according to the third Rock Health Digital Health Consumer Adoption Survey published this week. adults were online health information hunters. By 2017, 8 in 10 U.S. adults; the poll was fielded in 2017.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 11, 2018

As the CVS + Aetna merger crosses its last regulatory hurdle at the close of 2018, we enter 2019 facing a fast-growing and -morphing retail health landscape. The three of us will be on a panel addressing retail health disruption at CES 2019 on 9th January 2019 at the Digital Health Summit.

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FierceHealthIT

JULY 2, 2019

Investors continue to have a strong appetite for digital health with investment in the sector totaling $4.2 If this pace holds steady, the sector is on track to top 2018's annual funding total of $8.2 billion, according to Rock Health. billion across 180 deals through the first half of 2019.

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JULY 20, 2018

Consumers are more bullish demanding virtual and digital health tools from their physicians than doctors are in providing it, based on the research findings in What can health systems do to encourage physicians to embrace virtual care? from Deloitte.

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Mobi Health News

MARCH 30, 2018

(This story has been updated to include some acquisitions we missed.)

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APRIL 23, 2018

Telemedicine reduces gender-based barriers to health. A study showing that telemedicine improves access to care for women and girls in Nepal has won an Atlas Award.

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APRIL 17, 2018

Digital health companies raised $2.5 billion in VC funding in the first quarter of 2018, according to a new report from Mercom Capital Group. Mercom says the quarter, with 187 deals, is only the second since 2010 to top $2 billion.

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JANUARY 8, 2019

Digital health funding increased by 42 percent between 2017 to 2018.

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MAY 16, 2018

Northwell Health and the Center on Addiction have jointly launched a health care app specifically designed to guide providers when screening patients for substance use disorder. A free tool against substance abuse.

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Mobi Health News

MARCH 28, 2018

Patient engagement software company Relatient has launched MDpay, a patient-facing payment web and mobile platform.

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Mobi Health News

DECEMBER 21, 2018

The regulatory changes also come alongside Pre-Cert Program updates and roughly a dozen noteworthy digital health approvals.

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JULY 17, 2018

But can we nudge stakeholders in health and healthcare to “do no harm?”. This and other important questions will be brainstormed on the webcast hosted by Accenture on Wednesday 18 July 2018 as we discuss the five trends that paint the firm’s Digital Health Tech Vision 2018. Extended Reality. Data Veracity.

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FierceHealthIT

MARCH 10, 2020

consumers are not using any digital tools to manage their health. The use of wearable technology has decreased from 33% in 2018 to just 18% in 2020. Find out what is turning consumers off from digital health. One-third of U.S.

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