Christophe Morvan is managing partner at Drake Star, and Lawrence Giesen is a partner. Both specialize in telemedicine.

As 2023 turns to 2024, the two experts have a lot of thoughts on the state of the market for virtual care. Healthcare IT News sat down with the men to discuss main players in the U.S. telemedicine sector, merger and acquisition trends for telemedicine, main financial backers and investment dynamics, and short-term and long-term valuation trends.

From using high-speed wireless systems to provide tele-medicine to villagers in a remote tribal hamlet in Tamil Nadu’s Erode district to launching a micro-irrigation project in Odisha’s Maoist-affected Malkangiri, from a start-up incubator in Bastar to a club for the elderly in Jharkhand’s Jamtara.

PGIMER Telemedicine Centre provides basic telemedicine facilities, along with highly specialised services to the people of Chandigarh and the entire region – Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh, Uttaranchal and Rajasthan. It is also the Regional Resource Centre of north India since 2013 and the nodal centre of the north zone for the national knowledge network.