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The Burgeoning Role Of Venture Capital In Health Care

Henry Kotula

While venture capital -backed startups in digital health offer opportunities to affect the cost and quality of care, often by challenging prevailing modes of care delivery, they pose potential risks to patient care and raise important questions for policy makers. billion has been invested in digital health this decade (see Exhibit 1).

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Review of Mobile Devices and Health by Ida Sim in the NEJM

mHealth Insight

Mobile health — the application of sensors, mobile apps, social media, and location-tracking technology to obtain data pertinent to wellness and disease diagnosis, prevention, and management — makes it theoretically possible to monitor and intervene whenever and wherever acute and chronic medical conditions occur.