Healthcare stakeholders say digital health's unicorns are overvalued

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A new survey of health IT startups, insurers, providers, and investors shows healthcare stakeholders have underlying skepticism of the market's valuation:

digital health funding in Q1 2019: After a chart-busting year for industry funding in 2018, investments in digital health startups slipped to $986 million in Q1 2019 — down nearly 50% from Q1 2018.Healthcare stakeholders predict that digital health startups will continue to advance.

New digital health startups are projected to crop up in the near future. Nearly 80% of respondents think that the creation of new healthcare IT companies will increase somewhat or significantly over the next two years. And the share of respondents who predicted a significant increase nearly doubled since 2018 .

And most stakeholders think that funding will continue to pour into health IT companies. US digital health companies raked in over $8 billion in 2018, and most healthcare stakeholders aren't worried that investments will peter out. For example, only 7% of respondents are"very" concerned about funding as a barrier to health IT innovation in the next year.

 

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