All eyes on you, 2022

We’ve turned the page into 2022, and memes about 2020(too) aside, we’re starting the year revisiting our 2021 predictions—and offering up the themes we anticipate will change the digital health game in the new year. Read Rock Health Consulting’s latest to learn about the developments we’ve got our eyes on, the terms we expect to define industry discussion, and a status check on milestones of digital health’s journey to changing the standard of care. Plus, stay tuned for Rock Health’s 2021 year-end digital health funding recap, coming next week on January 10. Spoiler alert: it was another record-breaking year.

Headlines

Oracle To Buy Electronic Health Records Giant Cerner For $28.3B
The biggest health tech deal of the year closes out 2021 with a bang STAT

Digital Health Startups Join HHS Accelerator To Tackle COVID Health Inequities
The PandemicX program seeks to use digital tools to tackle disparities Fierce Healthcare

How Noom's Founders Shook Up A $250 Billion Industry
An overnight success story ten years in the making Inc.

More Digital Therapeutics Hit The Market, Pharma Uses Digital For Real-World Data
A recap of DTx moves from 2021 MobiHealthNews

BD Acquires Digital At-Home Test Maker Scanwell Health
The two companies previously partnered on COVID-19 testing before making it official Mass Device

Recent Funding (from the past few weeks)