Sep 11,2020

Boehringer Ingelheim, Click Therapeutics ink $500M+ digital therapeutics development, commercialization deal

International pharma Boehringer Ingelheim and prescription digital therapeutics company Click Therapeutics have inked a $500 million-plus deal to jointly develop and commercialize a digital treatment for patients with schizophrenia. The treatment, referred to as CT-155, will be a mobile app built on Click's proprietary tech platform, the companies said. Employing cognitive and neurobehavioral mechanisms, it encourage patients to adjust their behavior with the ultimate aim of reducing their cognitive deficits and impaired social functioning. The companies intend for the final product to deliver these benefits when prescribed as a standalone treatment, or in combination with traditional pharmaceutical therapies.

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Sep 22,2020

BUPA HEALTH CLINICS LAUNCHES PERSONALISED WELLBEING SERVICE

Bupa Health Clinics has launched a new health and wellbeing product for its business customers with SilverCloud. Employees will have access to the Bupa Be.Me app, which offers one-to-one support from a motivational virtual coach, health and wellbeing and mental health questionnaires, a health risk profile, bespoke recommendations and wellbeing content. Users will also be able to connect wearable data and access online mental health wellbeing programmes provided by SilverCloud.

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Sep 29,2020

Vida Health Selected as Preferred Mental Health Partner for Castlight’s Working Well Global-Mobile-Social-Measurable

Vida Health has been selected as the preferred virtual mental health provider for a new return to work solution called Working Well launched by Castlight Health earlier this year. Working Well provides employers with a simple, end-to-end solution to manage safe re-entry into the workplace amid the rapidly shifting landscape of the COVID-19 pandemic. As part of the solution, employees can opt-in to receive one-on-one mental health care exclusively through Vida Health.

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Sep 29,2020

Internet CBT for pediatric OCD maintains, or even increases, effectiveness over 12 months

New data suggest that an Internet-delivered cognitive behavioral therapy (ICBT) intervention not only remained effective after 12 months among adolescents with obsessive-compulsive disorder, but seemed to have an even greater impact on their symptoms with time. The average age of the 61 adolescents who received ICBT was about 14-and-a-half. The researchers found a significant increase in responses between the three-month and 12-month check-ins, with the latter having increased to a rate of 73%. The researchers saw a similar nine-month jump in remitters.

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Sep 30,2020

D.C. Housing Authority Offers Woebot to Employees and Residents

The District of Columbia Housing Authority (DCHA) today announced it has partnered with Woebot Health to offer Woebot, a smartphone-based general wellness program for stress and low mood, to all of DCHA’s 800 employees and to a pilot group of 450 residents living in the authority’s affordable housing communities. The pilot will be offered to residents of the Woodland Terrace and Greenleaf family communities and is expected to be rolled out to a broader group of residents in the future.

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Oct 07,2020

OLDHAMERS BENEFIT FROM FREE ONLINE MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT DURING COVID-19

The Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership are working with Health Innovation Manchester to review the outcomes of the digital services and plan for the future of mental health support following COVID-19. Ahead of World Mental Health Day on Saturday (October 10), Greater Manchester is reminding residents of the services, including from SilverCloud and other service provides, available to support them.

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Oct 09,2020

Happify Health Launches “2020 Survival Kit” in Support of World Mental Health Day

In support of World Mental Health Day on October 10th, leading digital mental health company, Happify Health, today announced the launch of the “2020 Survival Kit” available today at 2020.happify.com. This new collection offers free, tailored content designed to help people manage the stressful and challenging times being faced right now amid the upcoming U.S. Presidential election, racial inequities and discrimination, and overall stress and uncertainty around the pandemic.

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Oct 09,2020

Wise Therapeutics Raises Pre-Seed Funding; Releases Free Version of Personal Zen App

Wise Therapeutics, a digital therapeutics company created to improve access to effective mental health treatments using digital interventions, announced the closing of its first outside funding of $525,000 to support Android development and early rollout of its flagship app Personal Zen for stress and anxiety. The app offers a game-like cognitive training algorithm that is based on years of clinical research by its co-founder Dr Tracy Dennis-Tiwary. Its pre-seed funding round was led by SeedLink SL, an early-stage VC investor focusing on digital health and technology solutions, including additional investors Teem Ventures, a NYC-based venture development studio, and Reshma Saujani, a women’s leadership advocate and the Founder of Girls Who Code.

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Oct 12,2020

BETSI CADWALADR'S PARTNERSHIP TO HELP PEOPLE ACCESS FREE ONLINE MENTAL HEALTH THERAPY

Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board (BCUHB) have launched a partnership with south Gwynedd based charity Tan y Maen to help people access the new SilverCloud courses in North Wales. The courses have recently been made available free of charge to anyone aged 16 or over in Wales, as part of a £1.3m package of mental health service support announced by the Welsh Government. BCUHB’s partnership with Tan y Maen will enable people to be assessed to see if SilverCloud is the right tool for them, and given help to access the courses and other mental health related apps.

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Oct 15,2020

DIGITAL MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT FOR TEENAGERS ROLLED OUT

Teenagers starting their GCSE and A level studies are being treated for depression through a new digital mental health therapy programme for young people. SilverCloud Health is one of the leaders in this growing field, providing its services for adult mental health to 75% of the NHS. It has recently extended its digital cognitive behavioural therapy programmes for young people to incorporate an online module for treating depression. The new module is being introduced to teenagers aged 14 and upwards by Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS), including Dorset CAMHS and will soon be widely available to health trusts and schools across the UK.

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