Digital well being faces the identical hurdle as fintech: Get worthwhile or get misplaced.

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1. The medical doctors’ [bankers] are in.

A tech-focused part of an business that’s dealing with setbacks after a couple of monster years is able to make some offers.

No, I am not speaking about fintech.

Digital well being, as soon as the darling of the healthcare business, is having a tricky go of it. After a pandemic-fueled surge when well being companies and choices using tech have been prioritized, digital well being has come again all the way down to earth.

However the market downturn is not terminal… no less than not for the whole business.

Insider’s Blake Dodge, Shelby Livingston, Rebecca Torrence, and Yeji Jesse Lee spoke to 16 of the highest healthcare bankers and dealmakers to get predictions on the way forward for digital well being.

In brief, there are offers to be completed.

It is clearly in a dealmakers’ greatest curiosity to name for a return of M&A, however the bankers Insider spoke with supplied some considerate, nuanced perspective on the place the business will, and will not, see exercise.

The similarities between digital well being and fintech are putting. Startups in each areas leverage tech to upend incumbents, streamline companies, and enhance the general buyer expertise. They’re additionally doing it the place the stakes are excessive: well being and cash.

In fact, it isn’t simply out of the goodness of their hearts. The “tech” a part of their technique, they argue, affords them a better valuation than would historically be thought-about for firms of their respective areas.

It is a pitch that whereas initially profitable, has fallen flat as buyers scrutinize startups for indicators of profitability. In some instances, digital-health startups have pivoted from going direct to customers to promoting into companies. They’ve even jumped on the generative AI bandwagon.

For each fintechs and digital well being, this yr has served as a reminder that they are solely partly tech firms. They nonetheless exist in industries that largely depend on fundamentals. And concepts, nevertheless grand and bold, have to ultimately be tied to {dollars} and cents.

Click on right here for predictions from 16 bankers and dealmakers on the way forward for digital well being.

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