What You Should Know:
- The latest edition of SVB's Healthcare Investments and Exits report provides information on VC fundraising, investments and M&A and IPO trends - along with subsector analysis and video commentary for each.
- Healthcare trends indicate US healthcare VC investment was healthy in 2022 despite an economic downturn. There's plenty of dry powder to deploy; however, investments and exits are slowing due to the volatile market.
Trends and Insights – Healthcare
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The Evolution from Hearing Aids to Wellness Devices
Here’s what we know from decades of research: Hearing loss affects health and well-being, but people with hearing loss are often reluctant to wear hearing aids. Of course, they’re doing themselves no favors. But when they do finally opt for hearing assistance (on average, about seven years after they learn they need it), we also now know that the longer people wear hearing aids — throughout the day, for instance, rather than just in certain situations — the healthier they tend to be. Better
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59% of Employees Would Rather Speak To An App About Their Mental Health
What You Should Know:
- In October 2022, Wysa commissioned an independent survey of over 1000 American employees to get an in-depth look at the urgent state of mental health post-COVID. The results are staggering.
- There are serious debilitating mental health concerns that our workforces are silently struggling with, leading to impacted individual self-confidence and self-perception about their abilities and identity at work, which further leads to perceived low self-efficacy, leading to
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3 Elements Required for Data Ecosystems to Drive Innovation
For years, the healthcare industry has been inundated with stories about the importance of sharing data among payers, providers, and other key stakeholders – and for a good reason; widespread interoperability of healthcare data has the potential to transform much of the industry for the better.
What's often not mentioned is how expensive, time-intensive, and potentially legally hazardous data-sharing is. Combining disparate data sets is a technically challenging undertaking that requires
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Serena Williams-Backed Juno Medical Raises $12M to Expand Tech-Enabled Healthcare Clinics
What You Should Know:
- Juno Medical, the modern doctor's office that's designed for the 99% raises $12M in Series A funding co-led by Julian Eison, Managing Partner at NEXT VENTURES, and Serena Williams, Managing Partner at Serena Ventures. Other notable participants include Vast Ventures, which led Juno’s seed round, Empire State Development’s New York Ventures, TXV Partners, Genius Guild, Gaingels, and previous investors Atento Capital and Humbition.
- Juno’s products and services are
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2022 Telemental Health Regulations Unlock Access and Evolve Compliance Practices
What You Should Know:
- Epstein Becker Green (EBG) recently released its 2022 updates to the Telemental Health Laws survey.
- The 2022 updates report a significant evolution of the telemental health and telehealth industries, including increased regulatory flexibilities that promote increased use of telehealth.
Insights and Trends from Telemental Health’s Survey
The Telemental Health Laws survey is authored by Amy Lerman and Audrey Davis, with support from Jenna Horowitz, Erin
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Collective Health Appoints Chief Financial Officer
What You Should Know:
- Collective Health has appointed Chris Newman as its new Chief Financial Officer. Under this leadership, he will be responsible for leading the finance team at Collective Health, while ensuring the company continues to grow in a way that delivers on its brand promise.
Prior to joining Collective Health, Chris served as CFO and Chief Operating Officer for over five years at Rodan + Fields. Over the duration of his career, Chris served as COO and CFO for a number of
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HLTH22 Day 1 News Summary: Google, Maven, Highmark, LG, Others
Venture Capital, Private Equity Funding
Maven Clinic Secures $90M to Advance End-to-End Family Care Platform
Maven Clinic, the largest virtual clinic in women’s and family health raises $90 million Series E funding bringing its total funding to $300M. Maven plans to use the latest round of funding to advance its end-to-end family care platform to enable deeper personalization to meet the diverse needs of women and families everywhere.
Curavit Raises $5M for Digital Therapeutics
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Notable Survey: 61% of Patients Skip Medical Appointments, Due to Scheduling Hassles
What You Should Know:
- Notable, the leading intelligent automation company for healthcare, today announced the results of a new patient survey, highlighting that legacy digital solutions and manual workflows limit patients’ ability to access care.
- 61% of patients surveyed said that they skipped going to the doctor in the past year because scheduling an appointment was too much of a hassle.
Evaluating Why Patient Portals Fail to Meaningfully Expand Access to Care
Notable is
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KLAS Report Reveals EMR Functionality & Value Top of Mind for Small Practices
What You Should Know:
- A new report by KLAS provides the latest view on how the major vendors in this market perform and which ones stand out in the areas that small practices (2–10 physicians) care about most.
- Small practices provide a significant amount of outpatient care in the US, and their needs differ from those of their larger counterparts. When it comes to EMR/PM technology, these practices expect up-to-date functionality, steady product performance, solid implementation and
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