Digital health is showing signs of life despite financial markets that seem determined to bring some of 2023’s volatility into the new year. Stocks are up and down, and bond yields are climbing. Inflation is proving stubborn,...more
1/25/2024
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Health Information Technologies ,
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Life Sciences ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Private Equity ,
Venture Capital
From its inception, digital health has been focused on developing technologies and solutions that offer a higher quality of healthcare to more people at a lower cost. Amidst fluctuations in stock prices, valuations and...more
Artificial intelligence and healthcare are hardly strangers, as machine learning programs have been aiding in the diagnosis of disease, drug discovery, the streamlining of clinical workflows and the analysis of medical data...more
7/13/2023
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Innovative Technology ,
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Machine Learning ,
Microsoft ,
Startups
For digital health startups, the first two months of this year were a welcome departure from 2022, when high inflation and other economic challenges caused investors to press on the brakes and proceed with caution....more
Every year, Rock Health surveys the digital health landscape, noting the changing trends related to adoption by providers, patients and payers of these innovative new technologies....more
3/28/2023
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Healthcare ,
Healthcare Reform ,
Life Sciences ,
Medicaid ,
Medicare ,
Patient Access ,
Telehealth ,
Telemedicine
There are more investors in digital health today than there have ever been, but the questions they are posing to company founders before writing a check are tougher than they were just a year ago....more
As the financial markets continue to struggle, digital health companies are conserving resources, slowing hiring and minding their burn rate given the uncertainty around the current economic slowdown and whether the economy...more
7/13/2022
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Investors are understandably cautious this year as the Federal Reserve tightens monetary policies and financial markets erased the gains from the last 12 months. Public company investors in sectors with enticing upside—like...more
At the end of Q3, aggregate funding raised by digital health startups in 2021 surpassed $20 billion. Although 2021 continues to be a record-breaking year for digital health startups, investors gently tapped the breaks in Q3....more
11/24/2021
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Clinical Trials ,
Digital Health ,
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Health Information Technologies ,
Healthcare ,
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Life Sciences ,
Medical Devices ,
Mental Health ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Startups ,
Telemedicine
If your work involves life sciences dealmaking, you know it’s the time of year to start firming up your plans for the week of the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference. In the last 10 years, the second week of January in San...more
Investors are increasingly interested in companies with technologies that will be subject to U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulation.
Until recently, some investors shied away from companies targeting the...more
A few months ago, following our fifth annual Digital Health Summit, the attendees made some predictions about product development and investment in the rapidly growing sector. Now that we are more than halfway through the...more
9/2/2016
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Digital Health ,
Fitbit ,
Fitness ,
Healthcare ,
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Life Sciences ,
Mergers ,
mHealth ,
Popular ,
Startups ,
Tracking Systems
Among its list of defining quotes of 2015, Rock Health included one from a physician who was frustrated with the fact that, as she put it, “In my hospital there are 19 software systems across departments – few of which...more
At our Digital Health Summit earlier this year, Malay Gandhi, Managing Director at Rock Health, noted that once digital health venture investing accounts for 10% of all venture investment, we should start breaking out...more
Our fourth annual Digital Health Summit brought together a select group of investors active in the digital health, life sciences, medical device, and healthcare industries for a one-day meeting to discuss the future of...more
9/1/2015
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Value-Based Fees
Two blockbuster deals drove digital health financings to record levels in April. The month saw a total of nearly $790 million in deal flow, with the ten largest financing transactions of the month matching the first quarter...more
What a difference a year makes. Last year, we noted that 2013 was a blockbuster year for digital health investments with almost $2 billion of private capital going into the sector. We highlighted the 10 largest deals of 2013,...more
Digital health companies raised just over $730 million through venture, private equity and angel investments in September, according to our latest analysis, bringing the total for the third quarter to approximately $1.3...more
Digital health companies raised just over $730 million through venture, private equity and angel investments in September, according to our latest analysis, bringing the total for the third quarter to approximately $1.3...more
Healthcare software dominates the list of top digital health investments in July. Of the 10 digital health companies that received venture, private equity or angel investments of $10 million or more, six provide software...more
Thanks to an impressive showing in April, digital health investment in the first half of 2014 totaled $2.676 billion. There were a total of 38 deals for $20 million or more from January through June, with more than two-thirds...more
Private investment in digital health rebounded in April after a lackluster March with more than $924 million in venture capital and private equity going into the sector. That tops the $700 million garnered by the sector in...more
Fundraising for digital health continued on its record pace in February with more than $320 million in venture, debt and private equity investment going into the burgeoning sector....more
Digital health investing started the year on a high note with four $20+ million rounds of funding in January alone for MD Live, TigerText, MC10 and WellDoc. That’s a very promising continuation of the tremendous funding...more
With venture capital funding of digital health up 45 percent in 2012, according to Rock Health, we're hearing a lot about mobile health apps and healthcare IT. You may be asking yourself what is digital health? Hear my take...more