VR behavioral health platform BehaVR is merging with virtual chronic care-management company Fern Health to form RealizedCare, a digital care-management platform for chronic pain powered by digital therapeutics.
BehaVR developed mental and behavioral health prescription digital therapeutics, which include treatments for pain, stress, anxiety and addiction. The Tennessee-based company also...
California-based virtual reality therapeutic company AppliedVR received a unique Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPSC) Level II code from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for its RelieVRx system (formerly EaseVRx) to treat chronic low back pain.
Josh Sackman, president and cofounder of AppliedVR, joined MobiHealthNews to discuss the new reimbursement code and what's in...
The Food and Drug Administration has granted AppliedVR De Novo clearance to market its EaseVRx virtual reality system to treat chronic lower back pain.
The prescription device includes a VR headset and controller plus a “Breathing Amplifier” that’s used to train the user in deep breathing. Patients can participate in 56 VR sessions that use cognitive behavioral therapy to treat pain. The...
XRHealth, maker of health-focused virtual and augmented reality tools, launched a new program designed to address pain management, as part of a partnership with ehealth company Reducept.
The new program will use a VR game designed by Reducept to help train a patient's brain to manage pain. The gamified experience offers targeted behavioral experiments and techniques to tackle pain, which are...
Editor's note: This story has been updated with additional information and quotes from Hinge Health.
Hinge Health, a San Francisco company tackling musculoskeletal (MSK) health through digital programs with live virtual sessions, has wrapped up a $300 million Series D round that places its total value at $3 billion, according to a recent announcement.
The "heavily oversubscribed" round was led by...
Hinge Health, the maker of digital programs for chronic musculoskeletal (MSK) health, has closed $90 million in a new round led by Bessemer Venture Partners. Lead Edge Capital also took part in the Series C, as did prior backers Insight Partners, Atomico, 11.2 Capital, Quadrille Capital and Heuristic Capital.
Hinge had been courting investors throughout the course of the last quarter, and...
Virtual reality pain management company Karuna Labs has raised $3 million in seed funding, the San Francisco startup announced last week. The funding was led by Baseline Ventures, with additional participation from Anorak Ventures, the AET Fund, the Hustle Fund, Correlation Ventures and Dreamit Ventures.
WHAT THEY DO
The company develops personalized VR programs for chronic pain management. The...
A 12-week, 177-participant trial of Hinge Health’s at-home digital program for chronic pain relief significantly reduced users’ lower back pain, disability and interest in surgery. The study, led by employees of the company, was published last week in npj Digital Medicine.
Hinge Health’s digital care program (DCP) is designed for numerous musculoskeletal conditions, and consists of app-based...
As opioid abuse continues to make impact in the US, more and more tech-driven answers to the drug crisis are springing up that aim to reduce patients’ reliance on prescription opioids. Just yesterday, behavioral health therapy app maker 2Morrow threw its hat into the ring with the announcement that its services now include a digital chronic pain management program.
Much like the company’s other...
Medtronic has received FDA clearance for a new implantable pain management device that can be programmed wirelessly via a Samsung tablet.
The Intellis system is designed to treat chronic pain by delivering neurostimulation at the spinal cord. Using a Samsung Galaxy Tab S2, the patient's caregiver can adjust the neurostimulation according to a workflow designed by Medtronic called Evolve.
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