The Boston company will use the new investment to continue scaling its virtual care business. Biofourmis also announced that medtech veteran Omar Ishrak is joining the company’s board as its chairman.

Digital and telehealth solutions took off during COVID-19 and industry observers expect them to advance still further in the coming year. Coupling enhanced patient experience with rich opportunities to use associated data to enhance product development and health care practice, benefits should accrue to industry, health care practitioners, health systems and patients alike.

Iris Zemzoum, Novartis Pharma's president for Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa, outlines how the company is shaping its strategy in the region, which comes with “extremes” in market profiles, via a distinct archetype that factors in commonalities between national healthcare systems. The company is also progressing interesting initiatives in digital therapeutics.

One year on, we’ve seen how the coronavirus prompted entrepreneurial instincts to surface in the medtech and healthtech sectors. Asia healthtech investor specialist HealthXCapital tells Medtech Insight about the changes that are likely to stick as in an industry that has seen the value of rapid responsiveness to acute need.