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Building a digital therapeutic for paediatric behavioural health – the pharmaphorum podcast

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More broadly, Benny and Jonah look at some of the challenges still facing digital therapeutics in the market today, including the difficulty of securing reimbursement for these products, despite interest from providers, patients, and the health system as a whole.

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SparkRx: The first digital therapeutic for adolescents

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SparkRx is designed to decrease depression in individuals aged 13 to 22 by providing a multi-week programme based on cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and behavioural activation protocols. “In In primary care, there are guidelines to screening for behavioural health concerns like depression annually.

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Amwell’s SilverCloud buy yields new digital tool for mental health

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Telehealth company Amwell has marked Mental Health Awareness month with the launch of a digital tool that will deliver cognitive behavioural health interventions across a spectrum of mental illness. Meanwhile, the cost of accessing behavioural healthcare is a rising challenge for payers, said the company.

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Digital health player UpHealth swells with three-way merger

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The combined company will cover a broad swathe of the digital health landscape, bringing together population health software, telehealth services, digital pharmacy delivering compounded and manufactured medicines, and tech enabled behavioural health services for people with mental health and substance abuse issues.

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Headspace and Ginger finalise $3bn digital mental health merger

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She said: “Headspace Health is well-positioned to immediately address the supply/demand challenge both with technology and innovative alternatives to traditional therapy — like behaviour health coaching and engaging content – at a scale that hasn’t existed in the market until now.”.

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Health Innovators – Dr. Houda Hachad

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And that same technology and approach can also be of benefit to other chronic conditions, from cardiovascular disease to behavioural health. She chats with us about that progression, as well as some of the other facets of precision medicine, including digital health and the use and monitoring of non-genetic biomarkers.

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Sanofi forges $30m alliance with digital health firm DarioHealth

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Originally set up with a focus on diabetes, Dario has added capabilities in hypertension, weight management, and musculoskeletal and behavioural health in the intervening years, for example by acquiring musculoskeletal wearable company Upright Technologies and digital behavioural health specialist wayForward last year.