After surpassing previous year-end funding totals by the end of the third quarter, the digital health industry closed out 2017 with a record year of investment.
Analysts believe the industry will maintain those funding levels as digital health enters a new stage of maturity, although recent legal concerns could bring more scrutiny in 2018.
“It’s clear that the early game has concluded and digital health is entering the ‘middle innings’ as an investment sector,” Rock Health researchers Megan Zweig and Rachana Jain wrote in an year-end analysis. “We’re at the end of the beginning of digital health.”
