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In 2024, the Digital Health Revolution Continues

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

Rock Health Summit Takeaway: Digital Health is Rightsizing, Not Retreating

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

Generative AI And Digital Health–What Does the Future Hold?

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

New Funding Cycle for Digital Health Begins on Cautious Note

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

A Complex Regulatory Landscape Emerges for Telemedicine

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

Market Slowdown is Opportunity for Digital Health Companies to Hone Focus, Deliver Bold Yet Tenable Plans

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

Digital Health Has Strong Fundamentals to Pull Through Downturn

Digital health has been a powerhouse investment sector since it emerged more than a decade ago. Year-after-year, startups consistently demonstrate their innovations bring real-world benefits and our healthcare system...more

Big Tech Continues Foray Into Healthcare, Opening New Opportunities for Digital Health Startups

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

Digital Health Faced Headwinds in the First Quarter of 2022

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

Economic Conditions Changing, but Digital Health Still Strong

The digital health sector emerged as a juggernaut during the COVID-19 pandemic, with almost $15 billion invested in privately-held digital health companies in 2020 and nearly $30 billion invested last year, according to our...more

The Most-Funded Year Ever for Digital Health Startups – New Trends, Opportunities Emerge in Q3

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

Rock Health Summit Brings Together Brightest Minds in Digital Health

In the technology sector, entrepreneurs are often told to “move fast and break things.” But breaking things is something that won’t work in healthcare, so, as an alternative, innovators may consider “moving fast and keeping...more

Midway Through 2021, Digital Health Startups Sprint Past 2020 Records

At the end of Q1 2021, our friends at Rock Health noted the record-breaking $6.7 billion raised by digital health startups and declared the sector “all grown up.” The additional $8 billion raised in the second quarter of this...more

Q1 2021 Digital Health Startups Set New Investment Record, Led by On-demand Healthcare, Population Health Management and R&D Tech...

Last year the digital health sector smashed all previous records for both fundraising and consumer adoption of novel technologies. So far, 2021 is already on track to outshine last year’s impressive numbers. Digital health...more

Women Leaders in Digital Health See Rapid Growth and Increased Access Fueled by Pandemic

Recently, my fellow corporate partner Allison Cooper moderated a webinar, “A Conversation with the Women Building Digital Health’s Future,” during which she had the privilege of interviewing three amazing women CEOs of...more

Digital Health IPO Class of 2020: How Are They Performing Now?

In prior years, it was almost a foregone conclusion that promising digital health startups would be acquired by other companies before having the opportunity to debut on the public markets. However, that changed in 2019,...more

Digital Health Trends Shaping 2021: The Move to Telemedicine 2.0

Digital health companies and investors had a remarkable 2020, as fundraising totals broke records and deal volume significantly outpaced previous years. Moreover, the increase in investment activity has triggered more exit...more

Rock Health Summit 2020 Takeaways: Digital Health Is Firing on All Cylinders

When investors survey the digital health sector today, they see nearly every number trending upward. There is more deal volume than VCs have seen in past years, with the third quarter of 2020 outpacing anything they’ve...more

More Consolidation, IPOs Ahead for Digital Health Companies

Virtual healthcare staked out exciting new ground with the recently announced $18.5 billion merger of telemedicine pioneer Teladoc Health and chronic disease management company Livongo....more

Digital Health Investors Offer Cautious Optimism at Rock Health H1 2020 Event

Venture investors are pleased to see digital health companies continue to transform the healthcare system despite unprecedented challenges brought by the COVID-19 pandemic....more

COVID-19 Pandemic Shines a Spotlight on Digital Health in Q2 2020

The spread of COVID-19 has created a defining moment for the digital health sector, as many products and services once considered “nice-to-haves” have transformed into necessities....more

Digital Health Investments See Significant Uptick in Q1; Investors Consider COVID-19 Impacts in Coming Months

Despite the changes and uncertainty rippling across the entire venture-backed startup ecosystem, the digital health sector saw its best first quarter since analysts began tracking its performance more than a decade ago,...more

Biotech & Life Sciences Trends to Consider Following JPM 2020: M&A, Venture Capital and More

The annual gathering of life sciences executives and investors in San Francisco that many now call “JPM Week” recently concluded, marking the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference’s 38th year....more

Key Takeaways from Fenwick’s 2019 Digital Health Investor Summit

Fenwick’s eighth annual Digital Health Investor Summit took place against the backdrop of strong and increasingly diverse investment markets, a focus on clinical validation of digital health tools, and a healthcare system...more

AI in Medical Imaging: Exploring the Frontier of Healthcare Applications

Industry leaders anticipate that the use of artificial intelligence in medical imaging will have a substantial clinical impact, ushering in an opportunity to significantly improve decision support in medical image...more

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