Invest In Digital Health - The Medical Futurist's Guide
Invest In Digital Health - The Medical Futurist's Guide
Where To Invest in Digital Health? Good Investments, Bad Investments: Tales From The Industry
About the Book
At The Medical Futurist, we don’t usually deal with investment-related news and announcements. We never share investment rounds or press releases coming from incubators and venture capital firms.
However, it doesn’t mean that we don’t keep a close eye on all these developments.
Moreover, the mission we stand by indicates that we actively support the digital health and artificial intelligence start-up community; we are in close contact with many founders and we do share news and contexts that those incubators use.
The pandemic has just made this involvement even more prominent in our work. Good digital health investments these days cannot only provide a more optimistic vision for healthcare, but can shape how we deal with COVID-19 too.
So, it was time to share how we assess the quality and promise of digital health and A.I. start-ups and technologies; how we make a decision whether to feature a report or announcement on our channels; and how in general we try to make sense of all the changes around healthcare when it comes to investments.
We shared those 24 technological trends we find the most promising by also highlighting some specific areas that are worth following. And we included good and bad examples of the past couple of years about investment stories.
I hope you will find our publication a useful addition to the toolset of investors to find the next big thing in digital health and A.I. that can make the lives of patients and the job of medical professionals better.
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About the Contributors

An ambitious doctor of medicine and journalist covering the digital health, gaming and tech industries. Strong concentration, determination and attention to details are defining features. Has an insatiable interest in science, technology and video games and is always eager to gather new knowledge.
Table of Contents
CHAPTER 1: Digital Health By The Numbers
CHAPTER 2: Why To Invest In Digital Health
CHAPTER 3: Where To Invest? The Trends And Technologies To Look Out For
01 Virtual reality
02 Augmented reality
03 Remote care
04 Mental health services
05 Managing chronic conditions
06 Employee health programmes
07 Artificial Intelligence
08 Fitness trackers and smartwatches
09 Portable diagnostics devices
10 Smart utensils
11 Food scanners
12 Nutrigenomics
13 Robot services, companions, robot nurses
14 Direct-to-consumer genetic tests
15 Microbiome tests
16 Health sensors and wearables
17 3D printing
18 At-home lab tests
19 Digital pills
20 Smart patches and tattoos
21 3D printed drugs
22 Digital health insurance
23 Ride-hailing services
24 The digital health centaurs
Top 24 Digital Health Technologies Infographic
CHAPTER 4: Good Investments, Bad Investments: Tales From The Industry
The Good Ones
MySugr
AliveCor
Oscar Health
DeepMind
The Notorious Ones
Theranos
Proteus
Organovo
Clinicloud
CHAPTER 5: The The Medical Futurist method
Top 100 Digital Health Companies Infographic
Conclusions
Glossary of Digital Health Investment Terms
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