Rock Health
Rock Health's annual funding report revealed that the average size of digital health deals decreased in 2019, as did the total funding for the year.
$4.2 billion has already been invested into startups this year, according to Rock Health.
Ten women-led, early-stage healthtech startups will be selected to pitch in Paris in October to win a $50,000 equity-free grant.
Dr. Joseph J. Corkery, director, Product Management, Healthcare & Life Sciences at Google Cloud, discussed Google's moves into healthcare during the Enterprise Insights Series Event (in partnership with Google Cloud and Rock Health) earlier this week.
During a Google Cloud and Rock Health event, representatives from provider and payer organization discussed the next steps toward creating sustainable business models for healthcare startups.
Commitment to digital health varies across today’s leading pharmas, and many stakeholders are still waiting for the novel treatments to prove themselves with evidence and commercialization success.
Rock Health tracked just under a billion dollars in investment for the quarter, while Startup Health's more expansive methodology had the figure at $2.8 billion.
Women make up 12.2 percent of digital health VC partners, but many in the industry are discussing the importance of diverse viewpoints.
The report also showed a decline in consumers' willingness to share data with healthcare stakeholders.
Digital health funding increased by 42 percent between 2017 to 2018.