Rock Health
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How Are Digital Health Investors Shifting Their Focus In 2023?
The digital health sector’s quarterly investment trends seem to be stabilizing in 2023, according to a new report from Rock Health. The report noted investors are shifting their focus away from pandemic-era categories like telehealth and pharmaceutical R&D catalysts — instead, they’re interested in startups creating products for disease treatment, the improvement of nonclinical workflows and the enablement of value-based care.
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Jorie Healthcare CEO Shares Why Automation is Critical to Revenue Cycle Management
The revenue cycle management business is using AI tools to automate cumbersome tasks to help hospitals operate more efficiently. It’s beginning to attract the attention of major healthcare organizations.
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Why Q3’s low digital health fundraising total shouldn’t raise any red flags
Digital health’s Q3 saw the lowest quarterly funding total in the past 11 quarters, but experts don’t think this trend should be a cause for concern. They said it’s important to remember that the mega-boom of 2020 and 2021 was an anomaly for the sector.
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Digital health investment undergoing a healthy reset, future to be defined by value
While 2022 will likely be a reset from the tremendous growth in digital health funding of 2021, this is a healthy correction and an opportunity to realign on core metrics.
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Health IT, Health Tech, Startups, SYN
Digital health investment is just cooling off after a scorching year
Digital health startups raised $10.3 billion across 329 deals during the first half of 2022. This putts the sector on track to rake in $21 billion this year, about $8 billion less than the total amount it raised in 2021. The market boom has ended, but the digital health investment space has not come crashing down by any means, according to a recent report.
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The rise of virtual-first care: Bridging the gap between online and offline patient experiences
In a webinar sponsored by Wheel, health tech executives will explore how telehealth is increasingly becoming the first point of interaction between patients and providers and the potential for hybrid care models to improve the patient experience, health outcomes, and deliver cost savings.
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Digital health funding smashed another record this year, but is the trend sustainable?
Digital health companies have now raised more than $20 billion in 2021, more than any other year. While experts expect to see the dealmaking continue, they raised caution about the challenges of going public with high valuations.
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Survey: Telehealth users skew young, wealthy
According to Rock Health’s annual consumer adoption survey, telehealth users tend to be higher income, younger and live in urban areas. The survey also tracked people’s satisfaction with telehealth and what modalities people used most to access care.
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Startups, Health Services, Health Tech
Digital health companies smash another funding record, raising $14.7B in first half of the year
Digital health funding broke records again as companies raised a total of $14.7 billion in the first half of the year. Several companies also went public, but those that have gone public since 2020 have recently underperformed the NASDAQ.
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Navigating Healthcare’s Data Revolution: Priorities, Opportunities, and Challenges for Health Systems
Arcadia recently partnered with HIMSS Market Insights to survey executives, IT, technology, and clinical leaders. Here’s what we found.
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Startups, Health Services, Health Tech
Digital health companies raised $6.7B, breaking a record for Q1
Digital health startups raised a record-breaking $6.7 billion in the first quarter of 2021. Large funding rounds propelled them past previous months.
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Black women founders more likely to bootstrap digital health companies
A recent report by Rock Health found that Black and female founders of digital health companies received less funding and were more likely to bootstrap their companies than other groups.
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Startups, Telemedicine, Health Tech
Digital health funding hits another high mark for 2020
Digital health companies once again set a record for funding in 2020, according to a report by Rock Health. They raised a total of $5.4 billion in the first half of the year.
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StartUPDATES: New developments from healthcare startups
A roundup of new developments spotlighting startups this week including HealCo, PatientWing, as well as new research from Rock Health.
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Startups, Health Services, Health Tech
Digital health firms raised record sums before Covid-19 hit
Digital health startups raised a total of $3.1 billion in funding during the first quarter of 2020, according to a report released Monday by Rock Health. But startups face a dramatically different investing climate post-Covid-19.
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Digital health investment remains steady as IPOs return
Rock Health calculated there was $29.4 billion in capital invested in digital health startups since 2011 that were still waiting on returns and examined the two routes companies have to return liquidity to investors: IPOs and M&A.