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.

Totals for aggregate deals and in the M&A, alliance and divestment categories were similar among the 10 busiest deal makers from 2020 to 2021, but COVID-19 may have driven a more hectic deal-making pace overall in 2020.

Better Therapeutics is developing prescription digital therapeutics for behavioral therapy to address the root causes of cardiometabolic disease.

Cell, gene and RNA therapies are starting to transform the healthcare landscape and a report from the American Society of Gene + Cell Therapy and Informa Pharma Intelligence maps the progress the sector made in the first quarter of 2021.