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Study: Higher mental wellbeing (in 2016) seen to lower healthcare costs (in 2017)

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There are many rea­sons why men­tal well­be­ing is impor­tant. Not only is it pro­tec­tive against phys­i­cal ill­ness­es and linked to greater pro­duc­tiv­i­ty, but the men­tal well­be­ing of a pop­u­la­tion is essen­tial for a country’s sus­tain­abil­i­ty, long-term growth and development.

But despite the clear ben­e­fits, gov­ern­ments tend to focus pub­lic spend­ing on treat­ing and pre­vent­ing dis­ease, and pro­vid­ing care for those who are ill. While this is impor­tant and should con­tin­ue to be pri­ori­tised, such strate­gies alone won’t increase lev­els of men­tal well­be­ing overall.

Not only would enhanc­ing men­tal well­be­ing across all seg­ments of the pop­u­la­tion lead to bet­ter health on aver­age, it would also be ben­e­fi­cial from an eco­nom­ic per­spec­tive. [Read more…] about Study: High­er men­tal well­be­ing (in 2016) seen to low­er health­care costs (in 2017)

Ohio joins Indiana and Kentucky in funding Pear Therapeutics’ digital addiction treatments

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Ohio is third state to fund Pear’s dig­i­tal ther­a­peu­tics to tack­le addic­tion (phar­mafo­rum):

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 said that the Ohio Depart­ment of Men­tal Health and Addic­tion Ser­vices (OhioMHAS) and Recov­ery­Ohio are pro­vid­ing access to Pear’s FDA-approved DTx reSET and reSET‑O, for treat­ment of sub­stance use dis­or­der and opi­oid use dis­or­ders, respec­tive­ly. [Read more…] about Ohio joins Indi­ana and Ken­tucky in fund­ing Pear Ther­a­peu­tics’ dig­i­tal addic­tion treatments

Innovation in COVID times: Otsuka and Click Therapeutics announce fully virtual clinical trial, leveraging Verily’s Project Baseline

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Otsu­ka launch­es piv­otal tri­al of dig­i­tal ther­a­peu­tics for depres­sion (Med­C­i­ty News):

Otsu­ka Phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal is launch­ing a vir­tu­al study to see if dig­i­tal ther­a­peu­tics can reduce depres­sion symptoms.

It’s the next step in a part­ner­ship between the Tokyo-based drug­mak­er and Click Ther­a­peu­tics, a dig­i­tal health start­up that is devel­op­ing pro­grams for smok­ing ces­sa­tion, depres­sion and insom­nia. [Read more…] about Inno­va­tion in COVID times: Otsu­ka and Click Ther­a­peu­tics announce ful­ly vir­tu­al clin­i­cal tri­al, lever­ag­ing Verily’s Project Baseline

Happify Health raises $73M to deepen partnerships with pharmaceutical companies and insurance payers

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Hap­pi­fy Health rais­es $73M to expand its dig­i­tal ther­a­peu­tic care deliv­ery capa­bil­i­ties (Mobi­Health News):

Found­ed in 2012, Hap­pi­fy is best known for dig­i­tal pro­grams that pro­vid­ed auto­mat­ed self-guid­ed sup­port across var­i­ous areas of men­tal health and well­ness, such as stress man­age­ment for employ­ees or health plan mem­bers. Should the user need addi­tion­al sup­port, the plat­form can also facil­i­tate a refer­ral to third-par­ty coach­ing, ther­a­py, telemed­i­cine or oth­er avail­able resources. [Read more…] about Hap­pi­fy Health rais­es $73M to deep­en part­ner­ships with phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal com­pa­nies and insur­ance payers

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

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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 $1 bil­lion val­u­a­tion. [Read more…] about Four trends accel­er­at­ing men­tal health inno­va­tion in the COVID/ post-COVID era

Survey finds concerns AND hope to address growing mental health needs due to the covid pandemic

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Dig­i­tal providers come to the fore to sup­port glob­al men­tal health dur­ing pan­dem­ic (press release):

Research pub­lished today shows how dig­i­tal providers are com­ing togeth­er to sup­port the men­tal health needs of mil­lions of users unable to access tra­di­tion­al ser­vices dur­ing the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic. [Read more…] about Sur­vey finds con­cerns AND hope to address grow­ing men­tal health needs due to the covid pandemic