Navigating The Complexities Of A Digital Health Transaction
By Kristopher Brown and Tony Chan (February 27, 2018, 1:27 PM EST) -- Digital health is now at the forefront of deal activity in the life sciences and health care sector. The recent acquisition by Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Apsis of France-based Orthotaxy, a software developer of robotic-assisted orthopedic surgery, and the $118 million equity funding of privately held prostate surgery robotics company Procept BioRobotics, are just the latest in a series of digital health transactions that are transforming the life sciences and health care industries. Johnson & Johnson was itself involved in one of the early landmark transactions in digital health when its Ethicon Endo-Surgery subsidiary agreed to collaborate with Alphabet's Verily Life Sciences. The Verb Surgical joint venture, established in 2015, employs robotics, visualization, advanced surgical instrumentation, data analytics and connectivity to build an open-surgical platform to compete with so-called closed systems like the da Vinci robotic surgical system created by Intuitive Surgical Inc....
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