Fortune December 2, 2021
Dan Catchpole

The COVID-19 pandemic has displayed the health care technology industry’s ability to flex in the face of a towering global challenge. The virus’s genome structure was mapped within weeks, and vaccines rolled out less than a year after its existence was first confirmed. Since then, billions of people around the world have been vaccinated.

The pandemic fundamentally changed the industry in the process. Investing in the industry and innovation historically required patience and took years, but COVID-19 made accelerated innovation a necessity.

“Overnight, you had to change your care models to be able to reach your patients,” Emily Melton, cofounder and managing partner of Threshold, a venture capital firm focused on health care and tech, said Wednesday at...

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