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6 challenges healthtech can help us tackle – Pt.1

Digital Health Global

We can find academic research recommending that major health policies should emphasize reducing unhealthy lifestyles, dating three decades ago 3. Digital therapeutics have been the fastest growing area within the healthtech space in recent years, with global VC funding increasing 4x between 2017 and 2022 4.

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A Matter of Trust, Perception, Risk, and Uncertainty – The Big Issues Raised by the Acquisition of PatientsLikeMe and Other Patient Data Transactions

Health Populi

To address that challenge, in 2017 PLM secured a $100 million (controlling interest) investment from iCarbonX , a Chinese company that is amassing patient data to discover cures for disease. And they invested in people because the communities they built require a human touch. It is impossible to paint them with a one-color brush.