Host Jonah Comstock and MobiHealthNews Managing Editor Laura Lovett welcome Heather Mack – former MobiHealthNews Associate Editor, and now the head of content and editorial and Greylock Partners – to look back at another serious funding quarter for digital health and identify some of the trends that drove investment.

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Talking points:

• How the pandemic exposed the promise and importance of digital health.
• Mental health care as a major investment trend in the quarter.
• Is "digital health" just health now?
• People are realizing how much digital health can do.
• Digital health is here to stay, and not a bubble.
• Adoption, not innovation, is the current biggest driver.
• Telehealth beyond the video visit.
• Online healthcare habits are becoming the norm.
• What's the over-saturation risk for digital health niches?
• SPACs and IPOs – what do they mean?
• M&As – consolidation vs diversification.
• The impact of Amazon Haven's rise and fall.
• Quiet innovation in back-end AI/ML.
• Expectations for the second half of the year.

More about this episode:

Q2 wraps up with more than $6.2 billion in digital health investments

Healthcare automation startup Olive scores $400M

Digital MSK startup SWORD Health lands $85M in Series C

With more mega deals on the table, 2021 has already surpassed last year's funding total, says Rock Health report

Maker of computerized cardiac models HeartFlow to go public via $2.4B SPAC merger

Baby tech company Owlet hits NYSE after closing SPAC merger

Multimodal primary care provider Carbon Health scores $350M to become largest in the U.S. and more digital health fundings

Weight loss app Noom scores $540M in Series F funding

Ro raises $500M, bringing its D2C virtual care business to a $5B valuation

Oscar Health's CEO on how insurance companies have transformed during COVID-19

Amazon Pharmacy offers customers six months of prescription medication for $6