Digital health (the intersection of digital technology and healthcare) has been a hot area for tech entrepreneurs and investors over the last five years. This year’s Health 2.0 conference, however, gave the strong impression that…
2015 has been a year of inflection points in the true mathematical sense of the word: key trends slowed after years of acceleration. I expect that 2016 will be a year of cross-currents, when old trends…
Digital therapeutics have made surprising progress. This is good news, because digital therapeutics are typically cheap, and they have shown impressive ability to change behavior, one of the most important challenges in…
Data compiled by Rock Health, a San Francisco digital healthcare accelerator/investor, shows that the Bay Area is gaining ground in digital healthcare investing (see chart below). Three years ago, Boston and the Bay Area were…
Even more than usual, fragmented and redundant digital healthcare innovation threatens to frustrate the innovation ecosystem. Dave Francis of RBC Securities put it well: “There are a lot of zombie digital health start-ups that get $1.5…
A recent conversation with Larry Hausner, a diabetes care luminary, highlighted the challenges of successful proactive medicine and its importance to health and healthcare cost in the U.S.
A large-scale survey of U.S. doctors conducted by Decision Resources Group tells us that doctors are using digital tools and willing to receive data feeds from their customers, but they are quite frustrated by poor usability of digital…
Payers and providers have been at war since the 1980s, when employers concerned about rising health benefit costs pushed payers to ramp up efforts to control provider pricing. Payers’…
Many smart phone users, myself included, use the smart phone and its connected devices to gather data about our healthy behavior (or the lack thereof). Before long we have a rich file of biometric data which no-doubt…
