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2019 Annual “WITCH Report” On Healthcare Technology Consulting Firms

Electronic Health Reporter

Despite ending 2018 with a slow Q4, the outlook for technology services in healthcare remains strong, with opportunities in the provider space, robust M&A activity, newly introduced U.S. The WITCH Report is a comprehensive review of the financial and market performance of global technology firms in healthcare and […].

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

Health Populi

As I wrote here in April 2017, telehealth and virtual healthcare are mainstreaming. This week at the 2018 annual HIMSS conference, telehealth is playing a mainstream role in discussions about right-sizing and right-placing healthcare. Three in four consumers in America say technology is important to managing their health.

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The challenge of Healthcare Technology utopia in the UK

Lloyd Price

While you are reading this, you mightbe thinking about how rapidly the healthcare technology (healthtec) market has grown and how innovationhas changed our healthcare system in ways that were unimaginable only 5 years ago. Sadiq Khan subsequently backed healthcare technology through digitalhealth.london funded with £1.7

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2024: The Year all the 'Tourist" Investors leave the HealthTech markets?

Lloyd Price

Exec Summary: Tourist investors defined as 'generalist' and 'crossover' investors have slowed down their funding of Healthcare Technology companies significantly in the last 2 years and their presence has definitely diminished compared to the initial surge in 2020 and 2021.

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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 Another challenge that Olive AI has faced is increased competition in the healthcare technology space.

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DrFirst Acquires Myndshft Technologies to Revolutionize Medication Management by Addressing Both Pharmacy and Medical Benefits

Healthcare IT Today

Combined with DrFirst’s platform and scale, the technology will also lighten the substantial administrative load on healthcare providers and their staff. Founded in 2018, Myndshft is the only unified platform that streamlines prior authorization and related services for both medical and pharmacy benefits.

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Closing the Digital Health Gap Between Consumers and Physicians

Health Populi

Aside from the technology challenges, which are not trivial, physicians do concur with consumers about the potential benefits of virtual care to expand access, provide convenience to patients, and enable connections in-between office appointment times. “Macy’s?