MedCity News September 22, 2021
VCs at MedCity INVEST Digital Health said there’s no shortage of interesting digital health companies, even ones that can prove their innovations are effective. The challenge is winning over insurers and physicians, and finding payment models that work.
Investors continue to pour record amounts of funding into digital health. In the first half of 2021, digital health companies brought in $14.7 billion, already more than they raised in all of 2020, according to Rock Health.
Venture capitalists and private equity investors at MedCity INVEST Digital Health noted the record valuations as more firms are setting their sights on healthcare, but didn’t necessarily see it as a concern. For them, the biggest challenge wasn’t finding innovative technologies — but rather...