Weekly Overseas Health IT Links – 15th October, 2022.
This article uses the one that divides providers into groups depending on the life cycle stage the clinic is at the given moment. According to this classification, medical providers fall into three groups:BeginnersGrowing clinicsWell-established providersHealth care providers are business entities, so their life cycle, like that of any business, consists of the early stage or launch, growth and maturity. At each stage, providers have different priorities and goals, and the choice of medical software solutions should be made accordingly.Medical software for beginnersThe launch phase can be tough. At this stage, the profits ...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - October 15, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Headspace Health ’s Leslie Witt on the future of mental health: Meditation, text-based coaching, teletherapy, telepsychiatry, and community
Q&A: How Headspace Health’s acquisitions alter its mental health product (MobiHealthNews):
Headspace Health has revealed two acquisitions this year, the latest coming earlier this month when the digital mental health company announced the purchase of mental wellness app Shine.
In a crowded field of mental health startups, the company is using acquisitions to augment its product and add new capabilities … Headspace Health also scooped up Sayana, maker of AI-enabled mental health-tracking and sleep apps. And Headspace itself is the result of a merger between meditation app Headspace and virtual mental healthcare comp...
Source: SharpBrains - September 26, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Technology & Innovation acute anxiety acute depression digital mental health Ginger Headspace Headspace Health meditation app Sayana Shine Source Type: blogs
BREAKING: Headspace Health Acquires Shine App, A Diversity & Inclusion Self-Care Platform
BY JESSICA DaMASSA
Headspace Health’s CEO Russell Glass and The Shine App’s co-Founder & co-CEO Naomi Hirabayashi give us the inside story on deal that makes The Shine App’s award-winning, inclusive self-care and mental health platform a part of the Headspace Health family.
This is Headspace Health’s second acquisition this year, and we find out why they chose to ‘buy instead of build’ when it came time to refine and enrich the inclusiveness of their meditation, self-care, and mental health care offerings.
The Shine App brings 45,000 subscribers and 90 enterprise clients to the table, but what Ru...
Source: The Health Care Blog - September 8, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Tech WTF Health Diversity & Inclusion Jessica DaMassa Shine App Source Type: blogs
Convolvulus Hawk-moth in Cambridge
The Convolvulus Hawk-moth, named for its larval food plant convolvulus (bindweed) and its hawk-like appearance, is a rather rare visitor to the UK from mainland Europe.
Convolvulus Hawk-moth, Agrius convolvuli
The books usually say it migrates rarely and will be seen only in the South West of England if it does, but it has appeared elsewhere, often carried in on the same weather as other migrants, such as the Hummingbird Hawk-moth.
The Convolvulus Hawk-moth likes to nectar on tobacco plants and ginger lilies among other flowers and I have been growing the former in our back garden since I started mothing in the hope of se...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - August 27, 2022 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Lepidoptera Source Type: blogs
Weekly Overseas Health IT Links –20th August 2022.
Here are a few I came across last week.Note: Each link is followed by a title and few paragraphs. For the full article click on the link above title of the article. Note also that full access to some links may require site registration or subscription payment-----https://www.digitalhealth.net/2022/08/ai-predictive-trial-staffordshire-hn-reduce-ae-admissions/AI predictive trial in Staffordshire reduces A&E admissions by 35%A trial which looked at how existing patient data could be used to predict those most likely to need hospital care has led to a 35% reduction on average in A&E attendances across Staffordshire.Jor...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - August 20, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Medallion Raises $35 Million in Series C Funding Fueled by Significant Revenue Growth Over Past Six Months
Spark Capital doubles down on its investment in leading provider network management platform with introduction of new investors GV and Salesforce Ventures
Medallion, the modern provider management platform, today announced $35 million in Series C funding, raising its total funding to $85M. This investment comes on the heels of exceptional growth in the six months following its Series B round, including nearly doubling its employee count to 150, growing its revenue by 2x, and diversifying its customer base by doubling the number of health plans, providers and health systems.
The round was co-led by Spark Capital and ne...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 27, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT BoxGroup Derek Lo Elad Gil Google Ventures GV Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Healthcare Administration Katie Thiry Medallion Optum Ventures Salesforce Ventures Sangee Source Type: blogs
The Reckoning: What Happens to Digital Health After COVID?
By JEFF GOLDSMITH and ERIC LARSEN
It has been a rough year so far for digital health. After an astonishing $45 billion poured into new digital health companies in 2020 and 2021, and an early 2021 peak in market valuations of publicly-traded digital health providers, valuations and multiples have collapsed. Once high-flying Teladoc, which traded at an eye-watering 42x revenues and commanded a $45 billion market capitalization, is now trading around 2.7X at about $5.7 billion. AmWell, the next largest telehealth player, has seen its stock drop more 90% from its high.
Nor is the evaporation in market value is co...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 9, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech digital health Digital health investing Eric Larsen Healthcare bubble Jeff Goldsmith Source Type: blogs
Does VR give you motion sickness? Try chewing some gum
By Emma Young
VR headsets are becoming commonplace not only in entertainment and pilot training, but in clinical settings — in helping people to overcome phobias, for example, or to distract burns patients while their dressings are changed. Unfortunately, there’s a common side effect: visually induced motion sickness (VIMS), sometimes also known as “cybersickness”. This limits the use of VR, or means that people have to spend extended periods feeling nauseous while they adapt to it. But according to new research in Experimental Brain Research there’s a very simple way to tackle this problem: chewing f...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - February 8, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Brain Technology Source Type: blogs
Platforming Mental Healthcare: Investors Create New “Mental Models”
by Randy Williams, MD and Vince Kuraitis, JD
One sector at this year’s JP Morgan Health Care Private Equity Conference caught our attention: the virtual mental health market. Six months ago, market leader Headspace Health announced a $6 billion merger with Ginger to create perhaps the largest mental health platform business to date. Headspace announced yet another acquisition, this time with the Y Combinator incubated start up, Sayana. The combined companies support the mental health and wellness needs of over 100 million individuals.
Many others are joining the investment opportunity of tech enabled mental health. This ...
Source: e-CareManagement - February 3, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Vince Kuraitis Tags: Expertise in Platform Strategy & Business Models telehealth network effect digital health investor mental health behavioral health mental model Source Type: blogs
Lyra Health, Big Health and Mantra Health raise a combined $332M to commercialize digital therapeutics for mental/ behavioral health
Lyra Health scores $235M and buys employee assistant program ICAS World (MobiHealth News):
Employer-focused digital mental health provider Lyra Health announced a whopping $235 million Series F round led by Dragoneer. Salesforce Ventures and Coatue also participated. This new infusion of cash brings the company’s total raise to over $900 million.
The funding coincided with the news that Lyra Health is acquiring employee-assistant program ICAS World for an undisclosed sum. ICAS was founded in 1987 and provides coaching and counseling services to employees. The service offers phone, face-to-face or web-based treatment.
B...
Source: SharpBrains - January 20, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Uncategorized Behavioral Health Big Health digital therapeutics Lyra Health Mantra Health mental health Source Type: blogs
Headspace Health Merger Update: First Look at How Ginger-Headspace Combo is Really Going to Market
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH
Headspace Health CEO Russell Glass says the merger-of-equals between on-demand mental health care provider, Ginger, and consumer meditation app, Headspace, is starting its upward trajectory on the “merger J-curve” and this monster 30-minute chat gets into the how-and-why.
We start out talking about the company’s recent acquisition of chatbot-based self-care app Sayana, but quickly turn to the integration of Headspace and Ginger and where things stand in terms of bringing those offerings together after three months of operationalizing. A combined vision and set of values have been...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 20, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Tech Jessica DaMassa WTF Health digital mental health Ginger Headspace Headspace Health Russell Glass Source Type: blogs
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 ...
Source: SharpBrains - January 18, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Technology & Innovation acceptance commitment therapy AI-driven mental health breathing exercises cognitive-behavioral-therapy dialectical behavioral therapy digital mental health Ginger Headspace Health Sayana Source Type: blogs
APA: With digital mental health going mainstream, will/ should psychologists be able to “prescribe” interventions?
Mental health, meet venture capital (APA):
Until recently, mental health was a relative blip on the radar of venture capitalists. But over the past few years, and particularly since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, private investors have made a dramatic run for this space, pouring $3.1 billion into mental health ventures by the third quarter of 2021 alone, according to Rock Health, a seed fund that supports startups working in digital health. That represents a third of all digital health funding for 2021, more than 7 times the amount of funding placed in such ventures in 2015.
The reasons for this boom are clear. The pa...
Source: SharpBrains - January 14, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Technology & Innovation anxiety APA COVID depression digital mental health FDA FDA-approved insomnia meditation mindfulness prescription Psychology Rock Health substance use trauma venture-capital Source Type: blogs
Update: Why MDMA-assisted psychotherapy may become an FDA-approved treatment for PTSD within 2 years
Welcome to a new edition of SharpBrains’ e‑newsletter, sharing important brain/ mental health news plus a few fun optical illusions to tease and appreciate our unique human minds.
#1. Why MDMA-assisted psychotherapy may become an FDA-approved treatment for PTSD within 2 years
“We are a pharmacist and physician team who investigate the benefits and harms associated with substances of abuse like bath salts, phenibut, cannabis and synthetic marijuana. Through this work we have become intrigued about the therapeutic potential for some psychedelic drugs in the treatment of myriad psychiatric disorders, from PTSD to major ...
Source: SharpBrains - December 30, 2021 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Education & Lifelong Learning Technology & Innovation brain folding brain health cognitive decline digital therapeutics eMindful Ginger MDMA-assisted psychotherapy meditation mental training app mindfulness P Source Type: blogs
Solera Health includes Ginger and eMindful to expand digital mental healthcare platform
Solera expands mental health network with new partners Ginger and eMindful (Fierce Healthcare):
Solera Health, a platform that links people with a curated collection of health solutions, is adding mental health companies Ginger and eMindful to its network of partners.
Ginger, a provider of on-demand virtual mental health care, and eMindful, which offers evidence-based mindfulness programs, will join Solera’s mental and behavioral health network, where an algorithm will connect patients with the programs best suited to their needs.
Previously, Solera announced a partnership with meditation and mindfulness app Headspace in...
Source: SharpBrains - December 6, 2021 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Technology & Innovation Behavioral Health digital mental health eMindful Ginger Headspace mindfulness Solera Health Source Type: blogs
