Healthcare DIVE October 22, 2025
Emily Olsen

Health technology firms are interested in going public next year, but policy and economic uncertainty creates a difficult environment for IPOs, experts said at HLTH.

LAS VEGAS — The window for digital health initial public offerings has opened after a long period of stagnation, but the outlook isn’t entirely smooth for firms looking to make the leap to the public markets, experts said at the HLTH conference this week.

Few digital health companies have entered the public markets in recent years, in sharp contrast to a surge of health technology IPOs in 2021. However, many firms that went public during the pandemic-era funding boom struggled in the spotlight — and some collapsed altogether.

There’s plenty of uncertainty in healthcare...

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