Headspace Health acquires AI-driven digital mental health start-up Sayana

JPM 2022: Headspace Health grabs startup Sayana to build out AI-based mental health tools (Fierce Healthcare): Six months after the $3 billion merger with Ginger, Headspace Health acquired Sayana, an AI-driven mental health and wellness company. Sayana will expand Headspace Health’s ability to provide personalized self-care content to its 100 million users, executives said … Headspace leverages AI to power a significant percentage of the care the company delivers, [Russell Glass, CEO, Headspace Health] said during the JPM conference, including using natural language processing to extract information from the chats, to summarize coach notes and care information and to monitor for suicidality … “We’ve gotten to the point now where content recommendations via AI are higher quality by engagement rate than recommendations from providers themselves. The AI recommendations for content are used more frequently,” Glass said … Headspace also is focused on working with more employers through its enterprise brands, Headspace for Work and Ginger. The company currently partners with 3,500 enterprises through health plans such as Cigna. “We’re seeing hypergrowth in that side of the business,” he said during JPM. The company reports 59% year-over-year growth in employer bookings. The Annoucement: Headspace Health Announces Acquisition of AI-Driven Mental Health and Wellness Company, Sayana (press release): Headspace Health, the provider of the world’s most accessible, c...
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