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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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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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Pear extends digital therapeutics partnership with Spero

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The deal centres on reSET and reSET-O, Pear’s cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) based programmes, for people living with substance and opioid use disorders, respectively, which have been approved by the FDA as an adjunct to outpatient treatment. Pear secured approval for reSET-O in the following year.