Top 10 Digital Health Mergers And Acquisitions Show Trends For 2019

In 2018, the digital health market saw just as a turbulent year as before – if not even more volatile and unpredictable. MobiHealthNews saw a record-breaking 56 acquisitions and mergers in the space, 13 of which had disclosed price tags totaling $7.6 billion. While the market space relentlessly expands, some trends show the maturing of the scene: growth is mainly due to the slow awakening of huge traditional healthcare/pharma companies or agile tech giants, while small startups have less chance to survive on their own. Let’s see the most important digital health mergers and acquisitions of last year! Top 10 digital health mergers and acquisitions in 2018: 1) Roche & Flatiron Health Last year, we estimated that huge pharma companies started to understand the value of health tech start-ups’ solutions and unique expertise. So, instead of trying to come up with their products and services on their own, they rather teamed up with market players coming up with niche, value-based results. As an example, we listed the acquisition of Austrian diabetes management start-up, mySugr by Swiss big fish, Roche. As the company takes its role in the digital health universe seriously, it continued its investment in the field for example by buying up Flatiron Health, a company building a data platform dedicated to oncology, on 15 February 2018. Flatiron was founded in 2012 in New York, and it develops software that connects community oncologists, academics, hospitals, life science rese...
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