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With telehealth, one size won't fit all

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The continued flood of VC money and the rash of digital health IPOs this year only validates the traction that digital-first healthcare providers are steadily gaining in the marketplace. These companies will focus on differentiating through superior online experiences and possibly lower-cost services as well. Insurance companies will follow.

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Allurion: first HealthTech IPO of 2023 via SPAC with Compute Health

Lloyd Price

Allurion's IPO is the first health tech IPO of 2023. The company's success will be seen as a sign of whether the health tech IPO market is thawing after a period of dormancy. Here are some of the key takeaways from Allurion's IPO: The company's gastric balloon is a non-surgical weight loss device that is FDA-approved.

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Ten Years – Technology for Older Adults – 2009-2019

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Google’s IPO was in 2004 and Facebook (coincidentally) emerged that year. category tags: IoT and home monitoring , PERS , social media , cell phones, smartphones. Sadly, it appears that only Link·age surveys tech ownership of the oldest, but that only encompasses their own constituency.

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Whatever Happened to Tech-Enabled Home Care?

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Consider Care.com – total funding through its 2016 IPO of $156 million (mostly direct-to-consumer) – with Alphabet/Google as of 2016 as the last round and largest shareholder of the company. category tags: Home Care , tech-enabled home care. Perhaps he was wise, as his cohorts from that period took ever more money.

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A booming digital health market, and an elusive trifecta

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Everything is up: deal volumes, deal sizes, M&A activity, IPOs, SPACs. Region Tag: Global Edition. Paddy Padmanabhan The markets are buzzing with the latest Rock Health report on funding for digital health in the first half of 2021. At nearly $15 billion, the funding surpasses the amount for the full year 2020.

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With Wristband, Google Entering Consumer Health on Its Own Terms

Chilmark Research

FitBit dominates the wearable device market with a stunning 68 percent market share, according to recent research from Slice Intelligence, and the recent FitBit IPO couldn’t have gone much better. (It The wristband announcement, then, is Google’s way of saying it’s ready to join the dance, albeit at its own pace and on its own terms.