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    Can digital health help with healthcare worker burnout?

    Across the past eighteen months, healthcare has experienced a significant workforce shortage.

    It takes two to make a thing go right

    Enterprise customers are asking for simpler digital health platform solutions, and we saw two deals last week taking different paths to answer the call.

    “Like pea(r)s and carrots”

    Digital therapeutics companies were on fire last week.

    Woonsocket and Minnetonka have entered the chat

    There’s always plenty of news coming out of HIMSS, but what perked our ears was the embrace of digital health business models from two of the U.S.’s big five health insurers.

    Healthcare goes 5G

    In the past few months, you may have noticed the 4G or LTE symbol on your phone screen change to 5G; now, digital health is making the network upgrade too.

    A piece of digital health’s mind

    This week in digital mental health: an acquisition, a launch, a partnership, and a new unicorn.

    “Anything you can do, I can do better”

    On the heels of Amazon’s recent official rollout of AWS for Health, last week Google Cloud announced a new data organization tool for healthcare—another move in the growing health data infrastructure and interoperability solutions market that’s poised to be a new battleground for market dominance.

    Hey JOON

    Teladoc and Microsoft are back in deal mode, this time hand-in-hand.

    Comeback season for the IPO?

    There’s been a lot of exit talk over the past year with the emergence of the SPAC as a popular vehicle.

    H1 2021 funding: Baby, you’re a firework

    Fresh off the Fourth of July holiday weekend, we’re still seeing fireworks. Our H1 2021 report is out and the verdict is in: digital health funding is popping off, to the tune of $14.7B in H1—already surpassing 2020’s record-breaking total funding. The half closed with 372 deals and an average deal size of $39.6M, spearheaded by 48 mega deals which accounted for 59% of total funding. Public exit activity also ballooned with 11 closed IPOs and SPACs (+1 on Friday), with another 10 SPACs expected to close in 2021. It’s been a wild ride watching digital health blast off from niche sector to mainstream market, and it isn’t showing signs of slowing down: we just had another $1B+ week in funding. Read our H1 analysis here.