Sentences with phrase «digital health companies»

But bet they did — pouring $ 4.2 billion into digital health companies in 2016 alone.

He expects that going forward the pool of buyers for digital health companies will likely expand.

Meet with over 120 CEOs of leading digital health companies and learn from fellow attendees in breakout sessions tailored to your business.

Our client is a well - funded digital health company on a mission to improve and save 100 million lives across the globe.

• Murj, a Santa Cruz, Calif. digital health company focused on streamlining care for patients with implantable cardiac devices, raised $ 4.5 million in Series A funding.

UK About Blog Cambridge Cognition is a neuroscience digital health company developing products and services to better understand, detect and treat conditions affecting the brain.

Trend line: In terms of digital health companies targeting the part of the market that is subject to regulation, our analysis found 8.5 percent of venture investment in the digital health sector by value in the first half of the year went to companies developing products or services that would likely be subject to regulation.

• Oviva, a London and Zurich - based digital health company, raised $ 12 million in Series A funding.

Employee wellness is not a new idea, but new ideas from digital health companies like Castlight Health and Fitbit, as well as incumbents like UnitedHealthcare, are reimagining and reinvigorating the space.

«I have been founder and CEO of several digital health companies,» says Adams, «and can tell you from experience that there is huge value for early - stage companies to have access to customers with a desire to pilot these solutions.»

We principally invest in mid - to late - stage private biopharma and digital health companies with scientifically validated targets, compounds, and technologies.

It's fair to say that, aside from a bit of rebranding, Nokia didn't exactly take the Withings digital health company to the next level.

MobiHealthNews recently reported that more and more consumer - facing digital health companies are signaling a shift in focus away from unregulated fitness and wellness space and towards clinical applications for their technologies.

Trend line: Many expected that after years of meteoric growth, digital health investing would decline in 2016 — particularly in light of the fact that nearly all publicly traded digital health companies are trading below their offering price.

Co-hosted with Penn Wharton Entrepreneurship, the Digital Health CEO Summit is an annual invitation - only event that brings together CEOs from top digital health companies for a day of panels, roundtables, and candid conversations.

Continue reading «Digital Health Companies May Find a Faster Path to Market Under the FDA's Digital Health Plan»»

Digital health company Fitbit acquired Pebble, an independent maker of open - sourced smartwatches, in December 2016.

After operating a little under 10 years, Withings, the French digital health company, is no more.

Six digital health companies focused on patient treatment received digital health investments in August, but investment in this subsector only accounted for two percent of the total.

In addition to UPMC, we found almost a dozen healthcare systems making investments in digital health companies in the first half of the year, including Kaiser Permanente Ventures, Partners HealthCare Innovation, Intermountain Healthcare, University of Virginia Health System, MultiCare Health System, St. Joseph Health, Bayshore Healthcare, Children's Medical Center of Dallas, Catholic Health Initiatives and HealthEast Surgery Center — Maplewood.

«Voice is cool, but more importantly, it fills a real need of people who have difficulty using their hands or whose eyesight is not that great» said Ron Gutman, founder and chief executive of Palo Alto, a California - based digital health company.

And while true reform will require all the relevant parties — government, industry, and health care consumers themselves — to make major adjustments, an insurgent group of digital health companies is doing its best to drag American medicine into the 21st century kicking and screaming.

As healthcare systems struggle to improve their margins and outcomes and meet the requirements of the Affordable Care Act, they are natural strategics for digital health companies.

With the seemingly endless debate over Obamacare repeal reaching its latest chapter, digital health companies are pitching themselves as one potential avenue for addressing the U.S. health system's shortcomings.

Ameeta's background includes marketing, consulting, and board experience for SaaS and digital health companies.

«The way we're viewing it is as a digital health company,» said Brian Lobley, president of commercial and consumer markets at the Independence Blue Cross division.

The first large - N, peer - reviewed study was conducted by Cardiogram, a digital health company that uses machine learning to organize health data for preventative medicine, and the University of California San Francisco (UCSF).

Lucienne Ide of Rimidi, a digital health company focused on diabetes and other chronic conditions, is another another Atlanta female - founder success story.

«CancerIQ is a digital health company that is lowering the barriers to personalized cancer care.»

On our end, we've launched a couple of new sections within our funding post — check out our deep investor analysis as well as an update on the sometimes elusive, always critical quest of every digital health company: validation.

After seven years, we've seen $ 23B invested into thousands of digital health companies.

The largest investment in a digital health company focused on treating disease went to MDLIVE, a telemedicine company.

However, the single largest private investment in a digital health company in 2015 went to a Chinese company focused on consumer engagement.

Furthermore, of the recent class of digital health companies that debuted in the public market since March 2014, only one is trading above its IPO price: IMS Health, which was not a typical venture backed IPO.

Digital Health companies that focus on treating disease raised $ 142 million in the third quarter in 11 deals.

Digital health companies are increasingly pivoting to a B2B model, said Zweig in the opening presentation.

These include Mindful Scientific, a medical device company addressing concussion diagnostics and management that won the startup competition at the Wall Street Journal WSJ.D Live global technology conference and the Medical Device track at the HealthKick Challenge; abridean (acquired by nCipher PLC), a software company that develops application provisioning and identity management solutions; and i - HRx (acquired by HealthConnex), a digital health company focused on chronic disease management.

«I called someone at a digital health company in diabetes management.

Sharecare is the digital health company that helps people manage all their health in one place.

For US healthcare systems, the GDPR significantly changes the way physicians and digital health companies will approach patients and patient data.

These came from a number of major players, including UnitedHealthcare, Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Fitbit, and a variety of other payers and digital health companies.

The global healthcare market is vast and complex, with equity funding to digital health companies having reached $ 5.8 billion so far this year.

Fitbit, the digital health company whose wristbands have become synonymous with the whole activity - tracking movement, is trying to bring its health monitoring game to the next level — by focusing on a sleep disorder that affects millions of Americans.