It used to be conventional wisdom that the reason healthcare IT deals were appealing, at least compared to medical devices and biotech, is because they needed far less capital to get to the promised land.
CB Insights digital health stats for Q4 added up for the full year 2015 reveal $4.6 billion in digital health deals. It is part of a larger look at technology investments in 2015?.
The ongoing nursing shortage facilitates high turnover rates since nurses know they won’t have difficulties finding new jobs. In order to retain and attract staff, it’s in a facility’s best interest to understand what nurses want.
Apps to help manage chronic conditions and other illnesses dominated the $220 million raised across 35 deals, according to a new report sizing up the first quarter of 2015 by Mercom Capital. Mercom noted that app developers had raised about $900 million since 2010. The split reflects the maturation of the technology. The report highlighted […]
As early as February, analysts were saying that it would be a good year for healthcare IT companies looking for venture capital. Communications and consulting firm Mercom Capital echoed that today with results from its first-quarter investment analysis which found that healthcare IT companies raised more VC money last quarter than in any quarter before. […]
Clinical decision support acquisitions accounted for the most merger and acquisition deals in healthcare information management in the second quarter, beating out electronic health record and electronic medical record companies combined. That was just one of the interesting findings of a report from Mercom Capital exploring healthcare IT funding and M&A in the second […]