As the broader economy ping pongs between state lockdowns, unemployment reports and escalating public markets, COVID-19 still down't appear to have torpedoed investors' interests in digital health.
During the second quarter of 2020, MobiHealthNews tracked 89 funding deals totaling $2.44 billion – a slight increase in volume but decline in value when compared to both Q2 2019 (81 deals, $2.45...
The first quarter of 2019 may have been a tad slow, but the past three months have shown that investors are still ready to pony up for digital health companies of every shape and size. The $2.45 billion in fundraising that MobiHealthNews covered in April, May and June isn’t quite the highest quarterly total (that distinction goes to Q3 of 2018), but it came from an impressive 81 separate funding...
Were digital health innovators best described as a clever Trojan Horse this quarter, or as slimy snake oil salesmen? It really depends on who you ask.
At the beginning of the quarter, HHS CTO Susannah Fox said that technology would be a Trojan Horse for culture change in healthcare. She spoke about the ways HHS is enabling the democratization of technology innovation through the internet.
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In every newsletter edition of MobiHealthNews we include a "Quote of the Week" -- we actually do this twice a week since the MobiHealthNews letter goes out on Tuesday and Thursday mornings. That means in order for it to become the new quote of the week, our Thursday quote needs to be even better than our Tuesday one. We also include some of these favorite quotes in our quarterly reports. This...
