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Mercom: Telemedicine investments led 2020's $14.8B in digital health fundraising

Mobi Health News

While equity investments in telemedicine rose 139% to $4.3 billion, other areas like data analytics and mobile health apps also earned strong support from investors.

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COVID-19: The rise and rise of telemedicine

Mobi Health News

Telemedicine has experienced a huge surge in adoption over the past few months, during the coronavirus pandemic. With people locked down at home, it has become the 'new normal' way of accessing healthcare says digital health connector, Aline Noizet.

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Telemedicine, enabled with responsible AI, can improve the patient experience

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

What aspects of a hospital's or health system's patient experience can telemedicine touch? While the concept of the digital front door has been a popular topic in healthcare for some time, telemedicine has the potential to expand its impact beyond simply acquiring new patients or providing a digital entry point for care.

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Digital Health Adoption Across Communities is Uneven By Rurality, Race, Health Plan, and Gender

Health Populi

Thanks to the team at Rock Health, we know more about these gaps explained in their report, Startup innovation for underserved groups: 2021 digital health consumer adoption insights, published this week. The report examines three areas of digital health adoption: Live video telemedicine.

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Telemedicine M&A trends moving into 2024

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Both specialize in telemedicine. telemedicine sector, merger and acquisition trends for telemedicine, main financial backers and investment dynamics, and short-term and long-term valuation trends. telemedicine sector and where do they stand? For large incumbents, Amwell and Teladoc Health are the undisputed U.S.

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Google announces funding for eight AI-based projects in the digital health ecosystem

Digital Health Global

Among the endless possibilities of application of AI in digital health is reducing the time spent in traditional healthcare facilities, thanks to remote control systems that facilitate individual healing processes, and the increasing practice of combining traditional care with telemedicine. This is where Google comes in.

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Investors 'cautiously optimistic' about the state of the digital health market

FierceHealthIT

At the American Telemedicine Association’s Nexus conference in Phoenix, three investors talked digital health investing trends they’ve observed so far this year.