The Bet Is On Digital

The numbers are in for 2021 investments and the odds-on bet is that digital health will continue to grow and stay hot. That was my takeaway reading the just-released report, 2021 year-end digital health funding: Seismic shifts beneath the surface from Rock Health. Digital health investments exceeded 2020 levels by July of last year, with total funding of U.S.-based digital health startups amounted to $29.1 billion across 729 deals, with an average deal size of $39.9 million.

Investments in technology for treatment grew 2.5 times year over year, with a focus on . . .