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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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IVRHA 2022: Exhibiting pioneers of medical XR

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In 2021, the behavioural health company and Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma Co. a publicly traded global healthcare company that manufactures medical devices for patients who’ve suffered a stroke or aneurism. Another major player within medical XR is Penumbra, Inc.,

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Applied Virtual Reality in Healthcare: A comprehensive book on medical XR

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Immersive technology can also help improve assessments of the effectiveness of treatment, particularly regarding behavioural health where a patient’s results are often subjective. Self-reporting can put patients in an awkward spot to adequately describe their feelings or thoughts, and this method can sometimes be unreliable.