digital health investment
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4 Ways Investors Think the Health Tech World Will Change in 2024
At HLTH, Bessemer investors Sofia Guerra and Steve Kraus detailed four predictions about where they think the digital health world is headed in 2024. One of these was that “services-as-software” will emerge as a new category of healthcare AI. Another was that some healthcare technology vendors will have to rethink their distribution models and rely on indirect monetization strategies.
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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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How Pitango VC Is Planning to Invest Its New $175M Health Tech Fund
Pitango Venture Capital, one of the largest venture capital firms in Israel, announced the first closing of a new $175 million healthcare technology fund. With the new fund, the firm plans to build a portfolio of approximately 15 new companies over a period of three to four years.
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What Misconceptions Does the Healthcare Industry Still Have About Home-Based Care?
The at-home care field holds significant market potential. As the subsector continues to grow, some leaders of home healthcare startups are challenging misconceptions that some other industry stakeholders may still have, including the misbelief that at-home care is only for senior citizens and that this care model lacks scalability.
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‘Hope Is Not a Business Model’: Digital Health Fundraising Advice from 2 VCs
Two VCs from Merck Global Health Innovation Fund recently offered fundraising advice for digital health companies. They told these firms to expect slower funding timelines, urged them not to be afraid of down or flat rounds, and advised them to spend time nailing down the specifics of their growth narrative.
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Digital Health’s ROI Reckoning: How To Uncover New Value From Old Investments
To increase your return on technology investment, start with an audit of existing technology. Where is it falling short? Do problems stem from lack of functionality or troubles with adoption? What do all users think?
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In Which Areas of Healthcare Do Investors Want More Startup Activity?
While the digital health sector might feel a little cramped in some areas, there are wide open spaces in others — and investors are ready to funnel money into companies looking to innovate these lesser-discussed aspects of care delivery and healthcare technology. Some of these areas include Medicaid, generative AI and patient-to-patient support.
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Why One VC Thinks Women’s Health Is Poised to Take Off Soon
Francesca de Quesada Covey, chief investment officer at investment firm TheVentureCity, believes the women’s health sector will come into its own in the next few years. She said startups focused on improving care delivery will probably have the easiest time raising funds of all the companies in the femtech space.
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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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Which Digital Health Startups Are Most & Least Suited to Raise Capital in 2023?
Last year’s digital health investment trends have left some startups feeling uneasy about their ability to raise capital in the new funding environment. Venture capitalists think companies that have a demonstrable return on investment and serve multiple stakeholders will probably have the easiest time securing capital, while point solutions and startups in crowded markets will face a tougher environment.
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Q4 Was Digital Health’s Worst Quarter for Funding in 5 Years
Digital health’s investment slowdown is so severe that the fourth quarter of 2022 marked the lowest quarterly digital health funding total in the past five years, according to new report. Q4 was also the first quarter with no new unicorn births since 2018.
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ROI and Clinical Validation Will Determine Digital Health Startups’ Success in 2023, Investors Say
Going into 2023, investors think the abilities to demonstrate ROI and clinical validation will be the most important factors determining digital health companies’ success, according to a new report. While the ROI factor is a given, clinical validation “is the best signal of patient value and historically has been under-captured in digital health,” said Sunny Kumar, a partner at GSR Ventures.
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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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Report: Digital health funding tanks in the first quarter
A new CB Insights report found global digital health funding fell 36 percent in the first quarter of the year from that in Q4, 2021, with mental health and digital therapeutics suffering the greatest quarter-on-quarter decline.
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Investors disagree on whether digital health is in a bubble after another record funding haul in 2021
Some venture capitalists interviewed by MedCity News believe that digital health’s $57.2 billion haul globally last year is not a sign of a bubble and that there is yet room to grow, some hedged in answering the question, while a couple sounded the alarm. Everyone agreed on one thing though: valuations need to come down.