Start-Up Nation Central report: $183 million invested in digital-health companies in Israel during 2016, an increase of nearly 30% over 2015.
Israel has approximately 385 companies active in the field of digital health, according to a report which connects global entities with Israeli innovation.
In particular, the personal health tools subsector has skyrocketed, numbering 174 companies (45 percent of the overall sector). This subsector includes companies that provide software-based tools to help people track, manage and even treat their own health conditions.
The report was released ahead of the 16th annual MIXiii BIOMED 2017, an international life-science conference and exhibition expected to attract 6,000 industrialists, scientists, engineers and investors from 45 countries, May 23-25 at the David InterContinental Hotel in Tel Aviv.
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