Strategic Planning

Global healthtech has received $51.3 billion in investment this year, marking new highs for venture capitalist interest in the sector and identifying London as the fastest growing healthtech hub globally.

Digital infrastructure company Lifen has raised $58M (€51M) in funding, which will go towards working with 1,500 hospitals and 200 eHealth solutions by 2025.

An R&D cloud platform which supports scientists to share and access progress with the development of biopharmaceutical therapeutics has raised $35 million in investment capital.

Also, Enovacom launches solution to centralise patient data in a single app.

The European Institute for Innovation and Technology (EIT) Health has announced the acquisition of one of its supported startups PhagoMed GmbH, by BioNTech SE, in a bid to find new and alternative solutions to antibiotics that are losing effectiveness.

The scheme is being run in partnership with government technology firm PUBLIC.

The pair aim to make AI-enhanced diagnostics accessible beyond hospital settings.

A new app which collates older people’s health indicators and monitors for flu symptoms supports nurses and carers to make remote diagnoses and treat patients in their homes, reducing hospitalisations.

The internet cognitive behavioural therapy programme will launch in 2022.

The firm will provide its AI-powered platform to Kantonsspital Baselland.