Into 2021 Medtechs Prioritize Third-Wave Coronavirus Readiness

If Necessity Is The Mother Of Invention, Then Healthtech Firms Know What Is Expected Of Them In 2021 – How They Achieve It Will Be Anything But Straightforward

 
• By Ashley Yeo

Coronavirus has definitively changed health care delivery and the perceptions of health technologies and digital ecosystems. Industry will need to adjust to the aftermath of COVID-19, take opportunities and learn lessons from 2020 or 2021 could be every inch as challenging.

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Before the first wave of the pandemic had tailed off and the second wave fears were not yet borne out, MassMutual Ventures’ Ryan Collins expressed a regret: he wished that that his Asia-focused venture capital firm had done more deals going into 2020, before the coronavirus first slowed business, and then changed the way it had to be done.

Collins, a partner at the Singapore-based branch of MMV, was addressing an In Vivo-hosted panel at the APACMed annual conference,...

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