She predicts the health care data infrastructure will be the backbone of the whole health system. “It will be on-demand, higher quality, priced competitively and the user interface and user experience will be watched heavily by Gen Z and millennial patients.” “We will see the digitization and consumerization of the patient experience,” Mitra said. “Coming out of this will be innovation combining technology with artificial intelligence to address the next pandemic in record time, produce out-of-the-gate vaccines, and collaboration with other companies and the government.”Įxpect health care in 2021 to be more like interacting with Netflix and Amazon, said Priyanka Mitra, a principal at M12, which invests in software-related companies, in an interview. “There is a renewal of interest in community health and an appreciation for vaccines,” DeWitt said. Last year’s global pandemic increased the public’s awareness and understanding of how interconnected the world is, a view that will mature in 2021, Ann DeWitt, a general partner at The Engine, which invests in health care companies, said in an interview. Investments in 2021 could rival 2020 as investors expect innovation to come from areas such as data interoperability, mental health and personalized care. Investors in the space poured record investment dollars into digital health startups in 2020: $14.2 billion globally and $9.2 billion domestically, according to Crunchbase data.

Digital health startups are likely to see continued opportunity, investment and initial public offerings in the new year as people rethink the way health care is delivered.

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