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Lyra Health, Big Health and Mantra Health raise a combined $332M to commercialize digital therapeutics for mental/ behavioral health

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Lyra Health scores $235M and buys employ­ee assis­tant pro­gram ICAS World (Mobi­Health News):

Employ­er-focused dig­i­tal men­tal health provider Lyra Health announced a whop­ping $235 mil­lion Series F round led by Drag­oneer. Sales­force Ven­tures and Coat­ue also par­tic­i­pat­ed. This new infu­sion of cash brings the com­pa­ny’s total raise to over $900 million.

The fund­ing coin­cid­ed with the news that Lyra Health is acquir­ing employ­ee-assis­tant pro­gram ICAS World for an undis­closed sum. ICAS was found­ed in 1987 and pro­vides coach­ing and coun­sel­ing ser­vices to employ­ees. The ser­vice offers phone, face-to-face or web-based treat­ment. [Read more…] about Lyra Health, Big Health and Mantra Health raise a com­bined $332M to com­mer­cial­ize dig­i­tal ther­a­peu­tics for mental/ behav­ioral health

Using Reddit as a population-level “mental health tracker” during the COVID pandemic

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Fig­ure 1. Men­tion of COVID-19–related words across men­tal health sup­port groups. Time­line land­marks were cho­sen from NBC News time­line giv­en that US users are the most preva­lent across Red­dit. Glob­al, Chi­na, and US con­firmed COVID-19 cas­es are dis­played. Low et al (2020).

Using machine learn­ing to track the pandemic’s impact on men­tal health (MIT News):

Deal­ing with a glob­al pan­dem­ic has tak­en a toll on the men­tal health of mil­lions of peo­ple. A team of MIT and Har­vard Uni­ver­si­ty researchers has shown that they can mea­sure those effects by ana­lyz­ing the lan­guage that peo­ple use to express their anx­i­ety online. [Read more…] about Using Red­dit as a pop­u­la­tion-lev­el “men­tal health track­er” dur­ing the COVID pandemic