California-based virtual reality therapeutic company AppliedVR announced it secured an expanded contract with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs via its Office of Healthcare Innovation and Learning, dubbed VA Immersive, to provide veterans with VR-based chronic low back pain therapies.
AppliedVR's RelieVRx (formerly EaseVRx) received FDA De Novo clearance in 2021 to be used in the treatment...
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...
A virtual reality therapeutic program reduces pain intensity up to six months later, compared with a sham app, according to a study published in JMIR.
The study was sponsored by AppliedVR and used its RelieVRx system, formerly known as EaseVRx, to assess its long-term effectiveness for people with chronic lower-back pain (CLBP). It followed up on earlier research that analyzed the immersive eight...
Late last year, virtual reality therapeutic company AppliedVR scored FDA De Novo clearance for its EaseVRx system for treating chronic lower back pain.
The eight-week virtual reality program is designed to help people control and modulate their pain, AppliedVR cofounder and CEO Matthew Stoudt told MobiHealthNews. The system uses regulation and mindfulness skills, as well as techniques from...
Japanese medical device maker Jolly Good and the Pain Center at the Aichi Medical University Hospital will conduct a study on the efficacy of virtual reality-based therapy for chronic pain.
It was in April last year that Jolly Good set up its digital therapeutics division, which involves a team of psychiatrists, pharmaceutical strategy specialists, and other DTx specialists. Through this, the...
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...
Digital primary care company Curai Health scored $27.5 million in Series B funding from Morningside Ventures, as well as returning backers General Catalyst and Khosla Ventures. The company, which was founded by Neal Khosla and Xavier Amatriain, runs on a subscription-based model.
Users can pay $7.99 a month for the subscription and then access telemedicine visits with doctors. The service also...
Evidation Health just announced the launch of a 10,000 person chronic pain study, called the DisCover Project. The research aims to quantify chronic pain and develop digital biomarkers for chronic pain severity, flare ups and quality of life by using activity trackers, health apps, and other more traditional data points.
"We've designed and built the first ever large-scale digital study in...
Samsung and Medtronic are once again teaming up, this time to build mobile tools for patients using neuromodulation therapy, a treatment used in a number of chronic conditions including chronic pain, movement disorders, and incontinence.
The two companies partnered in June on diabetes around the same time Medtronic received FDA clearance for its MiniMed Connect device that connects Medtronic CGMs...
Indianapolis-based pharma giant Eli Lilly is opening a new drug delivery and innovation center in Kendall Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Construction will begin immediately, with the center opening by the end of the year for a planned staff of 30 scientists and engineers.
Eli Lilly Senior Director of Global Corporate Communications Edward Sagebiel said one Eli Lilly executive will move to...
