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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.

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

mHealth Insight

who is a Primary Care Physician, Professor at UCSF & coFounder at Open mHealth (follow her on Twitter @IdaSim ). health care spending, 3 so the promise of mobile health is especially attractive.” “A major challenge of mobile health is the high drop-off rate in sensor and app usage.