Healthcare innovation at the turn of 2025: Plotting hot topics along our innovation maturity curve
Rock Health December 9, 2024
As 2024 draws to a close, the healthcare innovation ecosystem is buzzing with reflections on this year’s biggest topics—and predictions for what’s to come. Last year, we introduced the Rock Health Innovation Maturity Curve, a framework to compare hot topics in digital health based on their research, investment, and partnership activity. From early-stage buzz to market-dominating developments, we mapped where trends stood to help strategy and innovation leaders spot first-mover opportunities and gauge where competitive pressures are ramping up. We’d like to check in on where things landed and add a few more buzzy topics for assessment.
Since last December, many of the topics we covered made significant progress up the maturity curve. This year, we revisit three major topics—healthcare...