Healthcare Growth Partners January, 2017
Introduction Uncertainty, fear, hope, and almost every emotion in between loom large in today’s political and economic environment, and the same is true in the health IT market (which we define as healthcare software, health services and outsourcing, and digital health). On January 25th , the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 20,000 for the first time in history, climbing the most recent 1,000 points at the second fastest rate in history, 42-days, and notably, entirely since the election of Donald Trump. Does the bullish nature of the market correlate to that of health IT? Have health IT valuations risen or fallen due to the new administration and its policy implications? In other words, in...