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

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Benny discusses SparkRx, Limbix’s product, and how it works, addressing the current regulatory landscape, how digital therapeutics interact with talk therapy and traditional therapeutics, and why it’s important to build a bespoke product for teens.

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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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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. In February it also agreed a deal to acquire Physimax Technologies, which develops computer vision systems for musculoskeletal screening and injury assessments.

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Orexo eyes opioid use disorder app launch before year-end

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Like its earlier digital therapies for alcohol misuse and depression , Modia’s earlier-than-expected rollout stems from legislation that has made it possible to secure reimbursement for certain digital products for psychiatric disorders during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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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.

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Partnering to advance digital therapeutics offerings

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Aaron Gani, founder and CEO of BehaVR, and Krys Zaluski, director of business development, digital health at Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma, discuss their groundbreaking partnership to develop and commercialise digital therapeutics (DTx) products. . Gani started BehaVR in 2016 to create DTx for mental and behavioural health.

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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.