Digital health funding is off to a roaring start in 2020
Mobi Health News
APRIL 3, 2020
Despite the onset of COVID-19 throughout the world, the first quarter of 2020 were host to healthy digital health investment.
Shifts in pharma’s 2020 digital health landscape
Mobi Health News
JANUARY 28, 2020
Former health innovation executive Naomi Fried highlights trends to watch among pharmas interested in digital health technologies.
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“Digital Health Is An Ecosystem of Ecosystems” – CTA’s 2020 Trends to Watch Into the Data Age
Health Populi
JANUARY 6, 2020
In CTA’s 2020 Consumer Tech Forecast launched yesterday at Media Day 1 at CES, Steve Koenig VP of Research, said that, “digital health is an ecosystem of ecosystems.”. Use cases bolster productivity, enhance workforce training (think Gray’s Anatomy in multiple dimensions or surgical training on digital humans). .
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Consumers’ Embrace of Digital Health Tech Stalls, and Privacy Concerns Prevail – Accenture’s 2020 Research
Health Populi
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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Digital health investments stay the course in Q2 2020
Mobi Health News
JULY 2, 2020
Despite the uncertainty of COVID-19, funding deals during the last three months were generally on par with those of Q1 2020 and Q2 2019.
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Investors close out 2020 strong, totaling $13.8B into digital health startups across 372 raises
Mobi Health News
DECEMBER 23, 2020
Investors smashed the quarterly and annual digital health funding records of years past.
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With more than $4.6B in fundings, Q3 2020 was an unprecedented showing from digital health investors
Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 2, 2020
MobiHealthNews covered a record-breaking 109 funding deals during the past three months – a clear step up from Q3 2019 and the swelling numbers of H1 2020.
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Twenty Q4 deals round out a record-setting 2020 for digital health M&A
Mobi Health News
DECEMBER 30, 2020
The newest deals bring the year's total to a record-setting 64 digital health acquisitions.
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Rock Health: Veteran investors doubled down on digital health's pandemic demand in 2020
Mobi Health News
JANUARY 12, 2021
The firm's year-end funding report reaffirmed 2020 as a breakout year totaling $14.1 billion in digital health fundings.
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Digital Health Tools Are Finding Business Models – IQVIA’s 2021 Read on the Health of Digital Health
Health Populi
JULY 22, 2021
In the Age of COVID, over 90,000 new health apps were released, as the supply of digital therapeutics and wearables grew in 2020. Evidence supporting the use of digital health tools if growing, tracked in Digital Health Trends 2021: Innovation, Evidence, Regulation, and Adoption from IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science.
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New Accenture study reveals emerging trends in digital health
Mobi Health News
AUGUST 11, 2020
Healthcare organizations must become more collaborative with patients, employees, partners and the public when creating digital innovations to have success in the future, according to research from Accenture.
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Digital health funding in early 2020 marks strongest Q1 to date, but records not expected to last
Mobi Health News
APRIL 8, 2020
According to the new Rock Health funding report in Q1 digital health companies raised $3.1 billion in new investments. However, with the coronavirus hurting the economy, the rest of the year may not follow suit.
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Rock Health's COO talks digital health funding, M&As and 'Teladongo'
Mobi Health News
SEPTEMBER 30, 2020
2020 is shaping up to be a record-breaking year for digital health startups.
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Mercom: Telemedicine investments led 2020's $14.8B in digital health fundraising
Mobi Health News
JANUARY 7, 2021
billion, other areas like data analytics and mobile health apps also earned strong support from investors. While equity investments in telemedicine rose 139% to $4.3
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The Pandemic Accelerated Consumers’ Digital Health Tech Ownership As Big Tech Morphs To Big Health
Health Populi
JUNE 10, 2021
The pandemic ushered in millions of peoples’ first digital health experiences, many of which will persist according to the 23rd Annual U.S. Household penetration of smartwatch ownership grew 12%, whereas activity tracker growth was fairly flat between 2020 and 2021. In 2020, one-fourth of U.S.
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Opinion: AI, privacy and APIs will mold digital health in 2020
Mobi Health News
JANUARY 3, 2020
Babyscripts CEO Anish Sebastian outlines major tech-driven trends to keep an eye on for the new year.
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CB Insights names 150 digital health startups as 2020's industry front-runners
Mobi Health News
AUGUST 13, 2020
Culled from a pool of nearly 8,000 companies, this year's list of the "most promising" private startups represents over $20 billion in funding from more than 900 unique investors.
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Faster Pace for Corporate Investments and Behavioral Health in COVID-Driven Digital Health Era
Health Populi
JULY 7, 2020
The pace of digital health investments quickened in the first half of 2020, based on Rock Health’s look at health-tech financing in mid-year. Digital health companies garnered $5.4 billion in the first half of the year, record-setting according to Rock Health. Consumer health information.
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Out-of-Pocket and Prescription Drug Costs – Connecting Digital Health Dots at CES 2020
Health Populi
JANUARY 9, 2020
Apropos to my title of this post, the survey was sponsored by the Bipartisan Policy Center , whose mission is to promote, cross-party affiliations, “health, security and opportunity for all Americans.”. Health care is the top issue driving voters’ choices in the 2020 elections for most Americans.
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Halfway in, 2020 looks like a banner year for digital health M&As, with 35 deals
Mobi Health News
JULY 10, 2020
Although most deals are undisclosed and some are partial asset acquisitions, the numbers undeniably show a busy year for the space.
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Digital health M&A in Q3 2020 dominated by a single industry-changing acquisition
Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 9, 2020
The marriage of Teladoc Health and Livongo stood out amidst a quarter with relatively few M&A deals.
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Report: Digital health scoops up $57.2B in 2021 funding worldwide
Mobi Health News
JANUARY 25, 2022
CB Insights' State of Digital Health 2021 Report also found 574 M&A deals, up 44% from 2020.
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Express Scripts to launch stand-alone digital health formulary in 2020
Mobi Health News
MAY 16, 2019
The pharmacy benefit manager will be vetting each of the tools featured within the new formulary for therapeutic value, usability, security, privacy and cost effectiveness.
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The Digital Transformation of Patients – Update from Rock Health and Stanford
Health Populi
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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Digital Health Gaps in the Pandemic Through the Eyes of Younger Physicians
Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 11, 2020
More younger doctors recognize the “immediate value” of telehealth, Philips found: 61% of younger doctors said telehealth was among the top digital health technologies that would have most improved their experience during the pandemic. 53% of younger doctors said AI would have improved their pandemic experience.
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Managing the Risks of Fast-Growing Digital Health
Health Populi
APRIL 5, 2021
Investments in the digital health sector have fast-grown in the past decade, reaching $14bn in 2020 based on Rock Health’s latest read on the market. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the field across many industry segments. Three in five said their growth was due to COVID-19.
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Headspace launches subsidiary to focus on prescription meditation apps, digital health
Mobi Health News
JUNE 6, 2018
It's not uncommon for doctors to tell patients that they need to relax, but now one company is aiming to develop a digital meditation product that can be prescribed by physicians. Headspace, maker of a mindfulness and meditation app, announced that it is a digital health subsidiary called Headspace Health.
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Digital health public offerings continue with Amwell and Talkspace announcing public exit plans
Mobi Health News
JANUARY 13, 2021
After some called 2020 the “biggest year for IPOs,” analysts predicted the wave of digital health public offerings to last into the new year.
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For Health Consumers, Trust, Privacy, & Good Experience Must Be Baked Into Digital Health Care
Health Populi
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). These establish a new baseline on the health consumer demand side for virtual care.
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HIMSS Insights Special Edition - APAC digital health trendbarometer
Mobi Health News
JANUARY 18, 2021
The findings are based on a survey conducted from October to December 2020 from 17 countries.
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Opinion: AI, privacy and APIs will mould digital health in 2020
Mobi Health News
JANUARY 3, 2020
Babyscripts CEO Anish Sebastian outlines major tech-driven trends to keep an eye on for the new year.
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The Internet of Teeth – The Growth of Oral Health at CES 2020
Health Populi
JANUARY 7, 2020
To help arm health consumers for better oral care, three big players in consumer health bring tech-enabled innovations to CES 2020: P&G, home of the Oral-B brand; Colgate, which markets a globally top-selling toothpaste brand; and Philips’ Sonicare oral healthcare line-up. The brush will be sold for purchase in August 2020.
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The Heart of Health at CES 2020 – Evidence & Innovation Bridge Consumers and Doctors
Health Populi
JANUARY 10, 2020
The digital health presence at CES 2020 is the fastest-growing segment of consumer technologies at the Show this year, increasing by 25% over 2019. On the “pro” side of the equation are, Immediate access to real-time health data. Note that Cigna and Humana both had a visible presences at CES 2020.
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MobiHealthNews' predictions for 2020: Big tech's here to stay, digital health moves through Gartner hype cycle and more
Mobi Health News
JANUARY 28, 2020
The MobiHealthNews staff shares its thoughts on how HIPAA, investor funding, digital health commercialization and other focus areas will be changing over the course of the new year.
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Apple's 2020 in review: COVID-19 pivots, clinical research partnerships and consumer device updates
Mobi Health News
DECEMBER 18, 2020
The tech company elaborated on its established digital health and wellness vision while improvising with the demands of an unexpected pandemic.
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Americans Grew Digital Health-Data Muscles in the Pandemic – New Insights from the Pew Charitable Trusts
Health Populi
AUGUST 5, 2021
“Most Americans clearly recognize the potential benefits that improved health IT can offer, and they want this transformation of the health care system to continue,” the Pew Charitable Trusts research concludes in Most Americans Want to Share and Access More Digital Health Data. As with other aspects of U.S.
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Physicians Lean In to Digital Health, Especially Telehealth and Remote Monitoring
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
doctors are using digital health tools in patient care, with quickening adoption of telehealth and remote monitoring technology, according to a study from the American Medical Association (AMA). Health Populi’s Hot Points: What’s underneath the immediate and near-term growth of telehealth and remote care modalities?
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Despite industry buzz, femtech funding still lags
Mobi Health News
JULY 16, 2021
of total digital health investments in 2020. Reenita Das, partner and SVP for healthcare and life sciences at Frost and Sullivan, said that femtech companies only accounted for 1.8%
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The UAE's implementation of remote patient care during the pandemic
Mobi Health News
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
Dr Rahul Goyal, physician clinical informatics lead at Mediclinic Middle East, UAE, will be speaking at HIMSS & Health 2.0 Middle East Digital Health Conference & Exhibition on 29 November – 2 December, 2020.
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HIMSSCast: An unexpectedly strong six months for digital health funding
Mobi Health News
JULY 24, 2020
HIMSSCast caught up with part of the Rock Health team to look back at an eventful six months of investor activity and look ahead to the rest of 2020.
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Six Digital Health Trends For 2021
Electronic Health Reporter
DECEMBER 11, 2020
Now we’re seeing the “2020 Challenge” — […]. The article Six Digital Health Trends For 2021 appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com. By Anish Sebastian, CEO, Babyscripts Remember Instagram’s “Ten Year Challenge”?
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The Latest Health Technology Vision and Consumer Behavior Insights From Accenture
Health Populi
AUGUST 18, 2020
Two new reports from Accenture update our understanding of the changed health consumer in the context of both “home: and the health care ecosystem. The 2020 tech vision for health is summarized here, tying to Accenture’s previous two years of forecasts. The Dilemma of Smart Things.
Walmart taps digital health for its 2020 employee benefits, SilverCloud Health explores AI with Microsoft and more digital health deals
Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 7, 2019
Also: OptimizeRx delivers messaging through NewCrop's electronic prescription software; Novo Nordisk expands collaboration with Noom following strong pilot; Livongo signs its biggest payer yet.
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MassChallenge recognizes quick-to-scale digital health companies with Fast Track to Scale Accelerator program
Mobi Health News
AUGUST 18, 2020
MassChallenge HealthTech in partnership with Anthem have announced the winners for the Fast Track to Scale Accelerator 2020 program. The three companies recognized as Diamond, Platinum and Gold Award winners are ianacare, DynamiCare and Karuna Health, respectively.
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