VC Investors Like Health IT

John Pulley | NextGov | April 13, 2011

As predicted, venture capitalists continue to be bullish on health IT. A number of the business investors who made it onto Forbes magazine's "Midas List" of top VCs in the technology sector are plowing cash into health IT, writes Forbes Healthworks blogger Zina Moukheiber...

...Last year venture capitalists invested $460 million in health IT companies, a 19 percent increase over 2009, notes Moukheiber. Investment growth is driven largely by federal subsidies to health-care providers implementing electronic health records, she says....