Investors continue to pour record amounts of funding into digital health. In the first half of 2021, digital health companies brought in $14.7 billion, already more than they raised in all of 2020, according to Rock Health, MedCity News reports.
Venture capitalists and private equity investors at MedCity INVEST Digital Health noted the record valuations as more firms are setting their sights on healthcare, but didn’t necessarily see it as a concern. For them, the biggest challenge wasn’t finding innovative technologies — but rather getting them to the point where physicians and insurers will adopt them. Read more.