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The Ten-Week Window: A Q4 Planning Guide for Your 2027 Digital Health Budget

Most 2027 innovation budgets will be written in the next ten weeks. This three-part guide is built for that calendar: what to…

September 15, 2026 by Sara Schmachtenberg Read article

Read-Only Is the Whole Story: OpenAI’s Epic Integration and the Clinical Reasoning Layer, September 2026

OpenAI has not built a better AI scribe. It has not built a scribe at all — it has shipped a read-only…

September 8, 2026 by Galen Growth Read article

The Operating System Around the Drug: Patient Support Programmes in 2026

Patient support programmes are evolving from back-office cost centres into the infrastructure that determines whether a treatment works in ordinary life —…

August 25, 2026 by Galen Growth Read article

Why Hinge Health Paid $105 Million for a Company Worth Just $8 Million in Revenue

Cylinder Health will add a rounding error to Hinge's 2026 top line. What Hinge actually bought was four years it didn't have…

August 18, 2026 by Galen Growth Read article

Beyond the Hype: Why the HealthTech 250 APAC Cohort Matters

TL;DR APAC Digital Health Momentum: The HealthTech 250 APAC cohort shows that Asia Pacific is producing not just more Digital Health startups,…

March 5, 2026 by Galen Growth Read article

Rewiring Healthcare with the HealthTech 250 U.S. Cohort

TL;DR A Data-Driven Snapshot: This year’s HealthTech 250 U.S. cohort (data as of 1 Feb 2026) showcases 75 U.S.-based, early-stage (Pre-Seed to…

March 5, 2026 by Galen Growth Read article

Beyond the Hype: The HealthTech 250 Europe 2026 Cohort Highlights the Digital Health Startups Driving Real Innovation

TL;DR A Data-Driven Snapshot: The HealthTech 250 (Europe) 2026 cohort (data as of 1 Feb 2026) showcases 50 Europe-based, early-stage (Pre-Seed to…

March 3, 2026 by Galen Growth Read article

Carbon Health: How a US$2.8bn Digital Health unicorn discovered clinics don’t scale like software

TL;DR Carbon Health filed for Chapter 11 protection on 2 February 2026 in the Southern District of Texas as a lender-backed “dual‑track”…

February 26, 2026 by Galen Growth Read article

Vertical AI in Healthcare: Vertical AI Beats Horizontal in the Agentic AI Era — Why Specialist Intelligence Wins

In the agentic AI era, defensibility shifts from foundation models to vertical data moats. In healthcare, specialist Digital Health Intelligence platforms outperform…

February 24, 2026 by Galen Growth Read article

Digital health exits: fewer fireworks, firmer foundations

Digital health exits reached $13.9bn in 2025, marking a 10.6% year-on-year increase and signaling a shift from volatility to a more disciplined,…

February 17, 2026 by Galen Growth Read article

The Galen Growth HealthTech 250, one year on: separating signal from noise in digital health ventures

One year after selection, the 2025 HealthTech 250 demonstrates exceptional resilience, raising $1.6B, securing 1,001 partnerships, and maintaining a 96% survival rate.…

February 12, 2026 by Galen Growth Read article

Shaping the Future of Digital Health: Galen Growth’s Conference Line-Up for 2026

See where to meet Galen Growth in 2026—from JPM to HLTH Europe and HLTH USA—and what evidence-led signals we track using HealthTech…

February 10, 2026 by Galen Growth Read article