Last Month In Digital Health (July)

CONTENTS:?1) ??Pharma Digital Health 2)??Digital Therapeutics 3)??Health Tech 4)??Wearables & Sensors 5) ?? Artificial Intelligence 6)?? Female Health 7)??Telehealth 8)??Funding & Finance?

1) ??Pharma Digital Health

Eisai and?Cogstate?roll out brain health tool NouKNOW for use in Tokyo dementia project

Bristol Myers Squibb?and Digital AI start up?Owkin?seal $180M deal using AI in Cardiovascular Clinical Trials?

Eli Lilly?and?Sidekick Health?partner on digital therapeutics for breast cancer

Almirall?and?Happify Health?launch their Claro app designed to reduce anxiety and improve wellbeing in people with psoriasis

Biogen?and?Happify Health?collaborate to support?Multiple Sclerosis (MS) patients on digital platform?

Merck?launches accelerator program for AI startups. They are looking for companies applying artificial intelligence, machine-learning and other digital approaches to drug discovery

Bayer?to launch digital AI cloud based platform for analyzing CT, MRI scans. The offering?Calantic?Digital Solutions, contains tools to help triage critical patient findings for expedited review, improve lesion detection and automate tasks

Sanofi?extends partnership with?Health2Sync. The partnership will focus on digitising its range of insulin products in Japan, extending an earlier alliance in other markets

2)??Digital Therapeutics?

A bit of pharma activity here, see the news above, Lilly siding with Sidekick and Biogen happy with Happify.

Swing Therapeutics scores $10.3M to support fibromyalgia DTx clinical trial. The startup's smartphone-administered digital therapeutic for fibromyalgia received FDA Breakthrough Device designation last year

Pear Therapeutics announces new analysis showing reduction in Healthcare Resource Utilization and associated costs in Substance Abuse Patients using reSET? at six months

And data showed that Pear's Somryst, the only FDA-authorized PDT for treating chronic insomnia, achieved significant reductions in symptoms of insomnia, anxiety and depression severity both immediately following treatment and at six-months follow-up

3)?? Health Tech

A Smart Pacemaker harmlessly dissolves in the body after it is no longer needed

In a first, Doctors transplant a 3D Printed Ear made of a Patient’s own cells

Dogs may be better at detecting Covid-19 than nasal PCR tests, study finds. Trained canines detected Covid in 97% of symptomatic cases and nearly 100% of asymptomatic cases

CRISPR gene-editing trials for treating beta thalassaemia and sickle cell disease are being extended to include people under the age of 12 after positive results in older people

Scientists harness light therapy to target and kill cancer cells in world first

4)??Wearables & Sensors?

Rune Labs gets FDA clearance to monitor Parkinson's symptoms on Apple Watch. The StrivePD software uses Apple’s Movement Disorder API to track tremors and dyskinetic symptoms.

Apple unveils a medication-tracking app and new heart health features for smartwatches

Alimetry gets FDA clearance for wearable gut disorder test.?The device captures digestive patterns from the skin surface and ultimately informs the diagnosis of gastric diseases

Fitbit rolls out a new premium ‘Sleep Profile’ feature to better assess sleep patterns

And how researchers are using old phones to screen for Alzheimer’s

5) ?? Artificial Intelligence

Janssen &?Paige?team up to launch AI-powered bladder cancer test using DNA biomarkers. The tool simply uses AI to analyze standard biopsy slides to spot certain genetic alterations

Bristol Myers Squibb?will work with AI developer?Owkin?to use machine learning techniques to enhance clinical trial design and execution

Toku Eyes?a New Zealand-based healthcare AI company, is launching its tool that assesses Heart Risk through a retinal scan in the U.S?

A “digital twin” created by?Twin Health’s artificial intelligence could help its human counterpart reverse the symptoms of Type 2 Diabetes and significantly cut back on medications for the condition, including insulin

Kintsugi?are using machine learning to identify and objective quantify Depression through voice analysis?

6)?? Female Health

Anthem partners with Happify Health to enhance Maternal Health. Members will be able to tap into digital therapeutics, including one addressing mental health needs during pregnancy.

Can wearables turn temperature into a passive and more immediate pregnancy test?

Consumers swap period tracking apps in search of increased privacy following Roe v. Wade ruling

Google will start erasing location data for abortion clinic visits

7)??Telehealth

Royal Mail adopts digital health hub and wellbeing consultations

Teladoc Health faces class action lawsuit alleging it misled investors

8)??Funding & Finance?

Oracle quietly closes $28B deal to buy electronic health records company Cerner

Aledade scores $123M for value-based care

Aidoc raises $110M to expand AI-enabled imaging platform

Jobs marketplace Nomad Health nabs $105M to help staff hospital tech, physical therapist roles

Proximie secures $80M to expand platform that connects surgeons virtually to operating rooms

Diabeloop rounds up €70M to take AI-powered insulin delivery tech global

Tomorrow Health makes home care more accessible for chronic disease patients transitioning out of the hospital raises $60M

Drug discovery platform Insilico Medicine raises $60M

Bicycle Health announces $50M Series B to scale Virtual Opioid Use Disorder treatment model in the US

Direct primary care startup Hint Health raises $45M

Credentialing platform Medallion raises $35M

Social care SaaS maker Birdie tops up with $30M

Sesame closes on $27M in funding to grow its pay-per-visit healthcare marketplace

Florence Healthcare, a workflow platform for clinical researchers, raises $27M

Elucid clears $27M funding for heart disease diagnostic AI

Neuralight with bold goal to establish digital biomarkers for neurological disease diagnosis wins $25M

Tel Aviv-based AI digital health company AiVF, completes $25M million Series A funding round to fuel adoption of its AI-based digital embryology management platform EMA

Ria Health scores $18M for virtual alcohol use disorder treatment

Zenysis raises $13.3M to scale its big data platform for emergencies across Africa, Asia and South America

Digital health start-up Wondr Medical which helps doctors and medical professionals collaborate, connect, and discover medical information, has raised ￡12M

Vamstar closes $9.5M Series A to expand AI-based Global Healthcare Supply Chain Platform

Autism-focused SpectrumAi raises $9M

Clinical trial platform Massive Bio scoops up $9M

Aidaly, a platform that aims to help family caregivers find financial support, emerged from stealth with $8.5M in funding

HiDoc Technologies has secured a cash injection of $7M to launch its Cara Care digital therapeutic for irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), and fund a move into additional therapeutic categories

Enara raises $6M for virtual weight support

Digital nutrition startup Culina Health raises $4.75M

NexStride gadget that helps people with Parkinson’s fight ‘freezing’ attracts $2.8M

Women's virtual care startup Visana Health brings in $2.6M

Psyomics closes ￡2.4M funding round to further expand access to its online mental health assessment platform to individual users and NHS trusts

Digital reproductive care clinic Choix scoops up $1M

Thanks for making it to the end ??