Sharecare, a company best known for its patient engagement and benefits-navigation tools, is looking to help folks understand how their brains work with its new mental health app Unwinding.
The company pitches this new app as a way for users to help reduce their stress levels and build healthy habits. Users can participate in mini-master classes that help them learn new techniques to help manage...
Pediatric teletherapy company DotCom Therapy is partnering with in-school telehealth provider Goodside Health to increase kids’ access to mental healthcare in schools.
The collaboration will allow DotCom therapists to work with Goodside patients who receive elevated marks on depression and anxiety screenings.
“We are excited to continue to collaborate with DotCom Therapy and help close an...
Digital mental health company Meru Health announced Thursday it had raised $38 million in a Series B funding round.
The equity and debt financing round was led by Industry Ventures, with participation from Bold Capital Partners, Freestyle VC, FMZ Ventures and Leksell Social Ventures along with financing provided by J.P. Morgan.
The latest round builds on an $8.1 million Series A from last year...
Digital behavioral health platform Ginger announced Monday its on-demand mental healthcare services will soon be available to members in Spanish.
Select Ginger clients will have access to the Spanish language program in the fall, and all members will be able to use Ginger’s behavioral health tools in Spanish by early 2022.
The company said members will have access to the full app experience in...
Mental health benefits provider Lyra Health announced new tools to help customers address suicidality, alcohol use disorder and other complex care needs.
The new tools will be available at the beginning of 2022. Lyra Reset, a treatment program for alcoholism, uses virtual therapy, group sessions, symptom assessments, peer support, digital lessons that teach coping skills and medication for...
Using Sleepio, a digital therapeutic to reduce insomnia, improved sleep, anxiety and depression more than other psychological interventions alone, according to a study published in Behaviour Research and Therapy.
The study was partially funded by Big Health, Sleepio’s parent company, and most authors were Big Health employees or paid consultants.
TOP-LINE DATA
Patients who used Sleepio achieved...
Curebase, a platform for decentralized clinical trials, is partnering with AppliedVR to run five trials to test the effectiveness of virtual reality for treating chronic pain.
The companies said the one-year partnership will focus on studying a self-administered, at-home VR therapy program. Curebase will manage patient recruitment, consent, and engagement, and collect patient-reported outcomes...
Kintsugi, a platform that uses vocal biomarkers to help identify conditions like anxiety and depression, wrapped up its seed-funding round, raising a total of $8 million.
The round was led by Acrew Capital, with participation from Darling Ventures, Techstars, On Deck and Adam Grosser, who also serves as an advisor for Kintsugi. The company received funding from the National Science Foundation and...
Hong Kong-headquartered health service firm Cigna International announced today the launch of a digital tool that can evaluate a person's stress level.
The company has partnered with AI medical technology company Ellipsis Health to develop the Cigna StressWaves Test, which is touted to be the world's first voice-activated stress test.
WHAT IT DOES
Based on a press statement, the StressWaves Test...
Accelerated by the pandemic, the digital transformation of all things health-related has opened new frontiers for both clients and medical practitioners. This is especially true within the field of behavioral health, where the industry has long been typecast with the prototypical patient on a couch.
Although an icon within the industry, clients can now receive therapy from the comfort of their...
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