Host Jonah Comstock and MobiHealthNews Managing Editor Laura Lovett welcome Heather Mack — former MobiHealthNews Associate Editor and now the head of content and editorial and Greylock Partners — to look back at another serious funding quarter for digital health, and identify some of the trends that drove the investment.
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Talking points:
- How the pandemic exposed the promise, and importance, of digital health
- Mental health care as a major investment trend in the quarter
- Is "digital health" just health now?
- People are realizing how much digital health can do
- Digital health is here to stay — not a bubble
- Adoption, not innovation, is the current biggest driver
- Telehealth beyond the video visit
- Online healthcare habits are becoming the norm
- What's the over-saturation risk for digital health niches?
- SPACs and IPOs — what do they mean?
- M&As — consolidation vs diversification
- The impact of Amazon Haven's rise and fall
- Quiet innovation in backend AI/ML
- Expectations for the second half of the year
More about this episode:
Q2 wraps up with more than $6.2 billion in digital health investments
Healthcare automation startup Olive scores $400M
Digital MSK startup SWORD Health lands $85M in Series C
Maker of computerized cardiac models HeartFlow to go public via $2.4B SPAC merger
Baby tech company Owlet hits NYSE after closing SPAC merger
Multimodal primary care provider Carbon Health scores $350M to become largest in the U.S. and more digital health fundings
Weight loss app Noom scores $540M in Series F funding
Ro raises $500M, bringing its D2C virtual care business to a $5B valuation
Oscar Health's CEO on how insurance companies have transformed during COVID-19
Amazon Pharmacy offers customers six months of prescription medication for $6
