Deerfield
About Deerfield

Launched in 1994, Deerfield Management Company is an investment firm dedicated to advancing healthcare through information, investment, and philanthropy—all toward the end goal of cures for disease, improved quality of life, and reduced cost of care.

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Investment

Supporting companies across the healthcare ecosystem with flexible funding models…

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Information

Delivering market research to the Deerfield team, its portfolio companies and other partners.

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Philanthropy

A New York City-based not-for-profit devoted to advancing innovative health care initiatives.

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Portfolio Companies

Deerfield generally maintains a combined portfolio of more than 150 private and public investments across the life science, medical device, diagnostic, digital health and health service industries at all stages of evolution from start-up to mature company.

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Research Collaborations

Deerfield partners with leading academic research centers, providing critical funding and expertise to further sustain and accelerate the commercialization of discoveries toward meaningful societal impact by advancing cures for disease.

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Strategic Partners

As a strategic partner, Deerfield offers capital, scientific expertise, business operating support, and unique access to innovation.

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Deerfield Foundation

The Deerfield Foundation is a New York City-based not-for-profit organization whose mission is to improve health, accelerate innovation and promote human equity.

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Cure Campus

Cure is a 12-story innovation campus in New York City that intends to bring together innovators from academia, government, industry, and the not-for-profit sectors to advance human health and accelerate the fight against disease.

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Cure Programming

Cure has a series of expert lectures intended to advance thought in healthcare, management, innovation, policy, and other relevant subjects. This fosters growth and education for those at Cure and its guests.

Events at the Cure

Shifting Care to the Home

“The Doctor Will See You Now…In Your Home.”

After well over a century during which the majority of care delivery shifted from the home to hospitals, clinics, and nursing homes, we are increasingly witnessing a gradual reversal of this trend. Fueled by a combination of new technology, the rising cost of care in other settings, and personal preferences for the relative convenience and safety of the home, many would argue that this deinstitutionalization of care is long overdue.

Telehealth

While the adoption curve for telehealth has been less compelling than many health care futurists anticipated, a growing percentage of Americans—now at 8 percent—have tried telehealth at least once, and an even larger percentage has expressed openness to considering it in the future. And while millennials have tried telehealth at almost 3 times the rate of the general population, its potential impact on improving quality and reducing cost may be even greater for seniors, who leverage telehealth for different purposes, such as assistance with medication adherence.

Remote Monitoring

From digital glucometers, scales, pulse oximeters, and blood pressure cuffs to Alexa devices with health care focused “skills,” a range of technologies has made it possible to better manage a number of chronic conditions in the home, including diabetes, congestive heart failure, and hypertension. Efforts to titrate medications for diabetes and hypertension that previously took weeks can be achieved, at times, in days, because of the much greater volume and frequency of data that can be collected with digitally enabled devices combined with telehealth, enabling clinicians to titrate these medicines much more efficiently than the “start at this dose, and see me back in a week” approach.
Recently, United Health Care announced the acquisition of Vivify, a remote monitoring company that leases to providers tablets connected to Bluetooth enabled devices that allow them to monitor and intervene as patients’ health conditions evolve in the home. Given the massive number of care delivery assets that it has accumulated—from p