Table 2.
The Amount of Digital Health Investing Over Time According to Clinical Areasa by the Number of Deals.
| Digital health deal count by clinical area | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | Q1 2019 | Total | |
| Diabetes | 0 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 17 | 15 | 12 | 22 | 1 | 89 |
| Cardiovascular | 4 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 8 | 11 | 17 | 15 | 2 | 79 |
| Oncology | 0 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 10 | 19 | 10 | 12 | 0 | 66 |
| Behavioral health | 1 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 12 | 16 | 13 | 25 | 4 | 86 |
| Overall digital healtha | 92 | 143 | 198 | 291 | 319 | 338 | 361 | 371 | 61 | 2174 |
| Diabetes % of overall deals | 0 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 4 |
Reference: Rock Health Personal Communication from Bill Evans.
a
Each company in the Digital Health Funding Database can be tagged with up to three “clinical indications.” Since each company may have multiple clinical indications, the sum of the funds raised across clinical indications + “other” clinical indications does not add up to the sum of total funds raised.