Digital Health Disconnect
There has been an avalanche of investment in digital health technology over the past decade. In the past ten years, $104 billion has been invested in digital health. Just in the past quarter, U.S.-based digital health startups raised $2.5 billion in 119 separate deals (see Q3 2023 Digital Health Funding: Smaller But Mighty and Third Quarter Cements Lower Digital Health Funding, Report Finds). While the number is large, this was the second lowest quarter of investment since the fourth quarter of 2019.
Digital health technologies include computing platforms, connectivity, software, and sensors for health care and related . . .