Digital health is here to stay, as more companies tap into the potential for preventative healthcare and innovation, according to healthcare venture capital manager Ambar Bhattacharyya in a March 22 CNBC article.
Mr. Bhattacharyya, the managing director at Maverick Ventures, a health venture capital fund, is knowledgeable about all things digital health, with six IPOs and four unicorn health start-ups in his portfolio.
"The root cause of the interest in these areas is the desire to do more preventive health care, turning our system from a 'sick care' system to a 'health system.'" said Mr. Bhattacharyya. These technologies have the potential to intervene in patients' health in a preventative manner before a hospital visit.
He also sees the future of telemedicine as extending beyond the current patient-physician relationship, and being used to transform many hospital departments, for instance through physician-to-physician telemedicine in the operating room.
"Artificial intelligence and machine learning in health care are not hypotheticals anymore; many payers, providers, and pharma companies are using those tools today to do tasks more efficiently and effectively," he told CNBC. "There's a lot of wood to chop, and we need the most creative and passionate people to work on solving these problems."