MobiHealth News January 12, 2022
Glooko CEO Russ Johannesson predicts that the growth in digital health funding will continue this year, and that the push toward interoperability will be critical for the space.
The digital health industry experienced a big growth year in 2021. According to Rock Health’s third quarter analysis of the space, funding had already reached $21.3 billion across 541 deals. The year surpassed 2020’s full-year funding total after the second quarter.
Russ Johannesson, CEO of diabetes and chronic condition management company Glooko, told MobiHealthNews the COVID-19 pandemic continued to spur digital health technologies and remote care delivery in 2021, and would probably keep driving trends this year.
While patient and provider adoption was also valuable, increased reimbursement options – both from private...