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Approximately $6.5 billion in new funding flowed into the digital health space in 2014, more than double the previous year's haul of $2.9 billion, according to data from digital healthcare accelerator StartUp Health. But investors placed their bets on fewer companies. Only 459 companies received funding this year, a drop from the 590 who received investments in 2013.
The decrease in companies financed is one of the “signs of a maturing market,” StartUp Health says. Another sign may be the stage at which venture capitalists and firms are making investments in startups. According to StartUp Health's data, just over 25% of deals were in the seed capital stage, a very early stage in a company's development. That's the lowest percentage since 2010, and indicates that there are relatively fewer funded startup entrants in this year's cohort.
Collectively, investors seem most enthused by big data and analytics, pouring $1.46 billion into 90 deals in 2014. Next was population health, with $1.14 billion invested.
Via rob halkes
Indeed, the health care market is structurally changing, also due to the volume compnay's entering the health care place from new perspectives: computers (e.g. Apple), Smartphones (e.g. Samsung) and IT - software (e.g. McKesson).
Current stakeholders will be disrupted as to their routines of approaching health care. Through the models of ehealth or digital health they can be guided to plan their disruption by themselves and create better health outcomes and save costs.