Teladoc Health, having acquired Livongo and myStrength, launches integrated mental health service for the workplace

By SharpBrains | May 19, 2021

Teladoc builds out men­tal health­care ser­vices with myS­trength Com­plete (Mobi­Health­News): Vir­tu­al care giant Teladoc is build­ing out its behav­ioral health ser­vices through its lat­est pro­gram, myS­trength Com­plete. The new offer­ing is designed to give users a sin­gle inte­grat­ed men­tal health­care expe­ri­ence. It com­bines the app-based mod­els of care from myS­trength with Teladoc’s on-demand ther­a­pists and…

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Four trends accelerating mental health innovation in the COVID/ post-COVID era

By SharpBrains | February 24, 2021

The mon­ey behind men­tal health: How the pan­dem­ic increased inno­va­tion, invest­ment in behav­ioral health care (Fierce Health­care): Ear­li­er this month, Mod­ern Health marked a mile­stone few com­pa­nies ever reach: uni­corn sta­tus. With the help of its lat­est $74 mil­lion fund­ing round, the start­up, which serves as a men­tal health ben­e­fits plat­form for employ­ers, topped a…

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Digital health start-ups raised a record $3.1 billion in Q1; focus will likely evolve from providers to consumers and employers

By SharpBrains | April 20, 2020

__ Dig­i­tal health firms raised record sums before Covid-19 hit (Med­C­i­ty News): “Dig­i­tal Health star­tups raised a record-break­ing $3.1 bil­lion in the first quar­ter of 2020, accord­ing to a report released Mon­day by Rock Health. But now faced with a glob­al pan­dem­ic, the trend is unlike­ly to continue

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