How to get funding for your healthcare innovation

From fitness accessories such as Fitbit to telemedicine and electronic medical records systems that better connect patients, physicians and clinicians to improve health outcomes, health care is a hotbed of innovation. But it's typically difficult for health care innovators to get the funding to take their idea, product or service to the next level. Investors representing perspectives from angel capital to the buyout phase gave advice to innovators at different stages of creating health care products and services at a panel discussion Wednesday at the Healthcare Dealmakers Conference in Dallas.