Last Month In Digital Health (November)

CONTENTS: 1)Digital Pharma. 2)Provider & Tech Collaborations. 3)FemTech. 4)Digital Mental Health. 5) Other Innovations. 6) COVID Tech. 7) Investments & Finance.

1. Digital Pharma

Boehringer and Yale University trial Digital Tech in Heart Failure includes, smart bathroom scale device & cardiac monitoring (Bodyport), patient diet & lifestyle app (Noom) & digital assistant (Conversa)

Takeda to partner on patient-centric data with Seqster

Novartis launches digital health hub in Canada

Almirall launches its second innovation initiative for dermatology-focused digital health start-ups

Bayer pays up to $4B For NC-Based Gene Therapy firm AskBio

Otsuka takes to YouTube, film and more to tackle the emerging mental health pandemic

?2. Provider & Tech Collaborations

Mayo Clinic & Google to create artificial intelligence for cancer care. The research partnership will aim to develop artificial intelligence tools that can improve the efficiency of radiotherapy and cancer care.

LifeScan partners with Truepill? to offer wellness solutions to people with diabetes and other health conditions

Digital health unicorns Lyra Health and Calm are teaming up to meet growing telemental health demand

Epic (health records software) partners with Lyft

3. FemTech

Holistic pregnancy health platform Mommymoon launches with online service portfolio

Kegg, a connected fertility tracker and Kegel trainer for women, launches out of beta

Twentyeight Health is a telemedicine company expanding access to women’s health and reproductive care

The women’s digital health platform Maven has expanded into a broader family-care space with the release of its parenting and pediatrics product. Maven now has services ranging from family planning all the way to support tools for parenting adolescents.

4. Digital Mental Health

Headspace and Snap Inc. team up for World Mental Health Day, launch new Headspace mini content to support Snapchatters’ rising stress levels

Mental health app MeToo shows positive results at NHS Trust

Digital health tool launched by SilverCloud aids teenagers to combat depression

Limbix digital therapeutic for adolescent mental health finds niche amid Covid-19 pandemic

5. Other Innovations

NHSX launches assessment criteria for digital health tools

Thirona obtains AI software patent for treatment of cystic fibrosis in children, with a quantitative method for the analysis of chest CT scans.

Rosita Longevity wants to teach seniors how to live long, healthy lives

Bupa UK launches remote skin assessment service to help detect skin cancer from home

6. Covid Tech

WHO, Wikipedia expands public access to trusted information about COVID-19

Mayo Clinic links COVID-19 outbreaks to search terms. Those such as "face mask," "Lysol" and "COVID stimulus check" had the strongest correlations across the U.S.- 

7. Investments and Finance

With more than $4.6B in fundings, Q3 2020 was an unprecedented showing from digital health investors

MA startup Clover Health goes public in blank check deal valuing it at $3.7B

Eargo, aiming to modernize hearing aids nabs an outsized IPO, raising $141M

Virtual primary care startup 98point6 raises $118M as pandemic sparks demand for digital health tech

Combining machine learning tools for medical imaging with genetic sequencing nets Sophia Genetics $110M

Bind raises $105M in Series B funding 'Health Insurance Innovation'

Chinese exercise startup Fiture lands $65M; and other digital health fundings

Datavant raises $40M in Series B financing to expand open health data ecosystem

Digital mental health subscription service Cerebral lands $35M

YOUR. MD has secured $30M in a Series A round investment led by the consumer health giant Reckitt Benckiser (RB) to expand self-care app Healthily

ScriptDrop a startup that works with pharmacies to deliver on-demand prescriptions scores $27M

Future raises $24M Series B for its $150/mo workout coaching app amid at-home fitness boom

Sidekick Health scores $20M for its gamified digital care platform

Human API raises $20M so you can share your health data with institutions you trust, spurring innovation

Nym Health raises $16.5M for its auditable machine learning tools for automating hospital billing

Spain’s Savana Medica raises $15M to bring to the US its AI toolkit turning clinical notes into care insights 

Men’s health subscription startup Numan closes ￡10M Series A funding round

Navina completes Seed investment round of $7M to solve the healthcare crisis using Artificial Intelligence, starting with primary care 

NeoLight’s jaundice treatment catches another $7M to bring neonatal light therapy to the home

Nutrium app, which links dietitians and patients, raises $4.9M led by Indico Capital

MediBookr [population health as a service] closes bridge round to accelerate growth, bringing the company's total funding to $3.3M

CoreCare raises $3M for managing billing and payments from public health benefit providers

Austin-based Verifiable raises $3M for its API toolkit to verify healthcare credentials

Caliber, with $2.2M in seed funding, launches a fitness coaching platform

Healthtech company Psyomics raises ￡1.5M for mental health diagnosis

MindLabs raises ￡1.4M for its new platform, a ‘Peloton for mental health’