Feb 06,2023

MyndVR announces first-ever payer partnership, expanding VR therapy to seniors in New York

MyndVR, a therapeutic VR company focused on seniors, is now covered by insurance for the first time through a managed care organization in New York. The company’s VR content has been available to AgeWell’s Carewell members since the start of this year. CareWell plan members can use MyndVR headsets to enjoy virtual travel, special adventures and entertainment. They can also share their experiences in real time with relatives using VR. MyndVR hopes to continue expanding coverage among Medicare Advantage and Managed Medicaid plans.

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Nov 30,2022

SILVERCLOUD WINS HSE TENDER TO PROVIDE DIGITAL MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT

Irish founded tech company SilverCloud Health has signed a national partnership agreement with the Health Service Executive (HSE) to provide online mental health services to patients across the country. The HSE rolled out a pilot version of the company’s digital CBT programme in 2021, which received more than 10,000 referrals from GPs and primary care psychotherapists. It said in a statement on Wednesday that active use of its digital platform has doubled since the 12-month review of the pilot programme in April.

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Dec 08,2022

How advancing tech has shaped mental health in 2022

The mental health landscape has welcomed discoveries, launches and experiences that showcase immersive technologies. Research, innovations and campaigns that explore the relationship between advancing technologies and mental health have come to the fore in 2022. As a result, there have seen sophisticated and ever-evolving technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality (VR) and gaming positioned as an effective tool to support holistic healthcare. Consumers want to access mental health interventions that are scalable, stigma-free, accessible and affordable.

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Dec 13,2022

BehaVR and OxfordVR Combine and Raise Series B to Create Largest VR Delivery Platform for Evidence-Based Digital Therapeutics

Virtual reality mental and behavioral health companies BehaVR and OxfordVR today announced their merger, supported by an initial $13 million in Series B funding led by Optum Ventures and Oxford Science Enterprises, with participation from Confluent Health, Accenture Ventures, Chrysalis Ventures and Thornton Capital.

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Dec 14,2022

Accenture Invests in BehaVR to Help Expand Access to Mental and Behavioral Healthcare Using Virtual Reality

Accenture has made a strategic investment, through Accenture Ventures, in BehaVR, a leading innovator in virtual reality (VR) digital wellness and digital therapeutics experiences. On the same day, BehaVR announced a merger with OxfordVR, a spin-out of Oxford University and a leader in science-based virtual reality treatments for serious mental illnesses. The newly combined entity will offer comprehensive, cross-acuity, VR-based therapeutic interventions for mental health, part of a digital therapeutics market expected to exceed $13B by 2027.

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Dec 15,2022

Rx.Health and Wise Therapeutics collaborate to provide game-based digital therapeutic to anxiety patients

Rx.Health, the leading evidence-based automated care coordination platform, has announced a partnership with Wise Therapeutics, a leading provider of game-based digital therapeutics for mental health. This partnership will enable Rx.Health's health plan and health system users to deploy Wise's mobile game to their patient populations as an integrated digital therapeutic for anxiety.

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Jan 07,2020

Pear Therapeutics Expands Pipeline With Licenses of CBT and Biomarker Technologies

Pear Therapeutics announced today that it has entered into mulitple agreements with technology innovators, including NeuroLex Laboratories developing a biomarker platform for mental health problems, leading researchers from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden developing content for clinical stage DTx, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center developing CBT and patient education against migraines, and lastly Winterlight Labs, Inc. developing a technology that analyzes and assesses cognitive health. These new agreements continue to bolster Pear’s PDT platform, by adding to its library of digital biomarkers, machine learning algorithms, and digital therapeutics.

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Jan 14,2020

Proteus parts ways with Otsuka as it pivots toward oncology, infectious disease treatment adherence

Following news of hardships at Proteus Digital Health, CEO Andrew Thompson has told that the company is winding down its high-profile $88 million deal with Otsuka Pharmaceutical, and will be pivoting from its current primary focus on mental disorders toward cancers and infectious disease treatments. The pharmaceutical company has now acquired the full license for Proteus’ mental health treatment adherence technology, and will be independently pursuing development for these types of therapies, a representative from Otsuka told MobiHealthNews in an email statement.

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Mar 26,2020

NHS staff across England get free access to mental health apps Daylight and Sleepio

NHS England has announced a national mental health support programme to provide NHS staff with evidence-based digital programmes to protect their mental health during the COVID-19 response. The NHS-accredited apps Daylight – designed to help with worry and anxiety – and Sleepio – a digital sleep improvement programme featuring Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) techniques – are both developed by digital therapeutics company Big Health. Fifteen NHS trusts and six GP practices have already rolled out access to the programmes to over 100,000 staff, with the apps now made freely available to all NHS employees across the country in partnership with NHS England.

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Mar 27,2020

Happify Health Offers Free Resources to Help People Manage Stress and Worry During Global Pandemic

Today, leading digital mental health company, Happify Health, announced the availability of a variety of free resources to help people manage stress and worry amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, including exclusive new content tracks, a webinar to help juggle work and homelife responsibilities, weekly yoga via Facebook Live, self-help articles with insights from experts, and more. Three tracks of specially curated content will be accessible to everyone at no cost by visiting together.happify.com. The first, “Managing Stress in Uncertain Times,” is a brand new content track specifically designed to address the challenges people are facing as a result of our current global crisis.

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