By the third quarter of 2015, digital health venture funding reached $3.3 billion, up from approximately $3.05 billion at the third quarter of 2014, according to digital health venture fund Rock Health.
Additionally, the average deal size has reached its highest point yet, at $15.8 million, but the number of deals is down 9 percent from last year.
The top six categories for digital health funding are healthcare consumer engagement ($489 million), wearables and biosensing ($430 million), personal health tools and tracking ($315 million), analytics and big data ($233 million), telemedicine ($209 million) and payer administration ($164 million), according to Rock Health.
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