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. 2021 Mar 18;9(3):e25406. doi: 10.2196/25406

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©Ramin Rafiei, Chelsea Williams, Jeannette Jiang, Timothy Dy Aungst, Matthias Durrer, Dao Tran, Ralph Howald. Originally published in JMIR mHealth and uHealth (http://mhealth.jmir.org), 18.03.2021.

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(A) Distribution of biopharma’s digital health partnerships, investments, and acquisitions from 2010 to 2020. Investments included direct investments from biopharma or a subsidiary arm of the parent company. Partnerships are the preferred format for achieving digital health maturity. (B) Digital health companies with at least three different biopharma interactions (eg, investment, partnership, and acquisition) were plotted against the four digital health segments. Currently, clinical research and drug discovery digital health companies encapsulate the largest segment of investments or partnerships from biopharma. None: the analysis did not return any digital health companies focusing on the beyond the molecule segment, which met the minimum criteria of at least three different biopharma interactions.