HBI Deals+Insights / Digital and AI
Digital health players are morphing from app providers into health care service companies. Digital health is also a bridge which will enable big pharma and medtech to extend its reach far beyond pills and machinery and into services. And a mass market is opening up, as payors finally start paying for digital health apps and services. We report from Himss 2018, which brought together a giddy mix of venture capital, digital health entrepreneurs, academics, some payors and forward-thinking chief technology officers from public sector hospitals, mainly from the Nordics, Spain and the Netherlands.