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15 digital health mergers, acquisitions from Q2 2018

Mobi Health News

But that deal was just the capstone on a busy quarter with 15 digital health mergers and acquisitions. The area of digital health shaken up the most by deal activity this quarter was certainly telemedicine.

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Wearable, Shareable, Virtual: The Demands of the Digital Health Consumer in 2018

Health Populi

This week at the 2018 annual HIMSS conference, telehealth is playing a mainstream role in discussions about right-sizing and right-placing healthcare. The evidence for telehealth’s tipping point is rooted in new research published today by Accenture on Patients + Doctors + Machines, Accentures’ 2018 Consumer Survey on Digital Health.

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For Health Consumers, Trust, Privacy, & Good Experience Must Be Baked Into Digital Health Care

Health Populi

Accenture probes this question in a report published today asking, How Can Leaders Make Recent Digital Health Gains Last? had adopted wearable technology for health tracking, a nearly 50% decline from 2019 (from 33% in 2018 to 18% in late 2019). The pandemic drove U.S.

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Why have billion dollar digital health companies struggled since the pandemic?

Lloyd Price

Digital health funding pre pandemic: 2018 Digital health companies raised a total of $8.1 billion in funding in 2018. There were 368 deals in the digital health space in 2018, with an average deal size of $22.2 This represented a 42% increase from the previous year's total of $5.7

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The Digital Transformation of Patients – Update from Rock Health and Stanford

Health Populi

But another patient side-effect of COVID-19 has been the digital transformation of many patients , documented by data gathered by Rock Health and Stanford Center for Digital Health and analyzed in their latest report explaining how the public health crisis accelerated digital health “beyond its years,” noted in the title of the report.

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Digital health news briefs for 4/23/2018

Mobi Health News

Telemedicine reduces gender-based barriers to health. A study showing that telemedicine improves access to care for women and girls in Nepal has won an Atlas Award.

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Consumers’ Embrace of Digital Health Tech Stalls, and Privacy Concerns Prevail – Accenture’s 2020 Research

Health Populi

Millions of dollars and developers’ time have been invested in conceiving and making digital health tools. Use of mobile apps to track personal health activity fell from nearly 1 in 2 consumers to 1 in 3. Use of wearable tech nearly halved, from 33% to 18%, between 2018 and 2020.