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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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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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Sanofi forges $30m alliance with digital health firm DarioHealth

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DarioHealth has beefed up its sales and marketing channels as well as its range of digital health products thanks to a $30 million strategic alliance with drugmaker Sanofi. Erez Raphael.

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Digital health financing bonanza slows in Q1

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Others included digital behavioural health player Lyra Health’s $235 million series G, a $200 million fifth round for digital pharmacy Alto, and a $192 million series E for chronic care specialist Omada Health. Image by Pexels from Pixabay .

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Amwell dials in deals worth $320m to buy two digital health players

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US telehealth group Amwell has agreed to buy two digital health specialists – SilverCloud Health and Conversa Health – as it looks to expand its services amid a boom in virtual healthcare delivery.

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Ohio is third state to fund Pear’s digital therapeutics to tackle addiction

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The company has been pushing for more reimbursement of its three marketed DTx products in the US following a first FDA approval in 2017. Pear noted that the grant comes at a time when many communities are seeing increased demand for behavioural health and recovery services amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.