Healthcare IT News July 8, 2021
Health system CIOs are reducing their tech footprint and consolidating their IT systems for agility and efficiency. For digital health startups to succeed in this space, they must get three factors right: cost, scale and quality.
The markets are buzzing with the latest Rock Health report on funding for digital health in the first half of 2021. At nearly $15 billion, the funding surpasses the amount for the full year 2020.
Everything is up: deal volumes, deal sizes, M&A activity, IPOs, SPACs. By all indications, the digital transformation of healthcare is fully underway and it’s time to party like it’s 1999.
What the explosion in VC funding data doesn’t tell us, however, is how all these heavily-funded startups are doing...