Last Month In Digital Health (October 2022)

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

1) ??Pharma Digital Health

Novo Nordisk to leverage Microsoft's AI capabilities to boost drug discovery, with initial focus on atherosclerosis

Pfizer signs a $100M multiyear drug discovery partnership with CytoReason, a technology company developing computational disease models

And Pfizer has finalised its acquisition of digital health startup ResApp, who have developed a mobile app that analyses cough sounds and diagnoses respiratory diseases, including asthma, pneumonia and COVID

Bridge Bio will use Brainomix AI in lung fibrosis clinical trial, to track disease progress using high resolution CT scans

GSK partner with Medable to power decentralized and hybrid clinical Ttrials

Teva's Digihaler linked to improved asthma control in clinical trial

Novartis, Microsoft and NYU launch AI driven heart health equity network

2)??Digital Therapeutics?

Evernorth?expands digital health formulary with?Big Health?&?Quit Genius tools. The tools included in its formulary were reviewed by physicians, pharmacists and user experience experts

Curebase?announced a three-year clinical trial partnership with?Meru Health?for DTx developed to reduce depression in primary care patients

Ypsomed partners with?Sidekick Health to fight patient’s self-injection anxiety

Trinity Health?collaborates with?Orexo for digital mental health treatment with innovative reimbursement deal?

Prosoma?and?EVERSANA?announce commercialization partnership for new DTx supporting mental health and behavioral needs of cancer patients

Better Therapeutics?has submitted its lead prescription digital therapeutic (DTx) BT-001 to the FDA, seeking approval for use by adults with Type 2 Diabetes (T2D)

DarioHealth?publishes new clinical research linking the use of its biofeedback device to reduced back pain

JOGO Health?DTx(JOGO-Gx) shows superior results to current treatments in alleviating non-specific low back pain

3)?? Health Tech

New evidence Crispr can edit genes inside human bodies. The technique had largely been limited to editing patients cells in the lab. New research shows promise for treating diseases more directly

Researchers at Rice University have developed a pneumatic assistive device for people with disabilities. The technology includes an air pump that is mounted in the wearer’s shoe, providing pneumatic power with each step

A wearable assistive robot has been developed to predict and prevent falls in the elderly, by using AI and a deep sensing camera that observes a wearer's movement.

Bionic Leg Wrap uses AI to correct walking patterns for cerebral palsy, MS, and stroke patients

Tool to spot breast cancer at home wins UK Dyson award

4)??Wearables & Sensors?

Stanford University?researchers create new wearable device that monitors tumour size

FDA?approves Leg Wearable for Neurological Conditions.?The mobility aid uses AI and electrical currents to stimulate muscles

Wearable data combined with AI effectively discerns Parkinson’s Disease symptoms

5 wearable devices that help Parkinson’s patients monitor and manage their have been given a provisional recommendation from UK NICE

Researchers use data from wearables to predict outcomes of depression treatment

Otolith Labs?has built a nerve-stimulating wearable device that aims to relieve the symptoms of chronic vertigo

The?Apple?Watch added ovulation estimates and is being used in an NIH study to prevent strokes / reduce blood thinner use?

5) ?? Artificial Intelligence

Owkin?AI for identifying breast, colorectal cancer types scores EU approval

Viz.ai?receives FDA clearance for pulmonary embolism-related algorithm

Google?debuts a new AI tool in the global fight against tuberculosis

AI-driven algorithm funded by?British Heart Foundation?helps diagnose heart attacks

AI could help deliver greater success at birth, predicting complications well in advance

CleaVision, a social venture backed by?SAP?employs machine learning program in India seeks to prevent blindness in premature babies

Conversational AI is helping alleviate impact of nurse shortages, via intelligent triage of requests?

Artificial Intelligence tool helps combat antibiotic resistance & misuse, by improving antibiotic stewardship?

6) ?? Telehealth

Telehealth cuts overdoses for opioid users according to study

Video telehealth and in-person diagnoses agree in 87% of cases according to study , with secondary care ahead of primary care in concordance?

Virtual hearing care could help detect early signs of hearing loss and prevent further damage - and goes hand in hand with new over-the-counter hearing aids

Another big partnership >?Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts?to launch virtual primary care with?Carbon Health?and?Firefly Health

Doximity?expands access to telehealth service free of charge to thousands of clinics

7)??Funding & Finance?

CVS Health wins bidding war against Amazon for Signify Health and will acquire company in $8B deal

Alphabet’s Verily raises $1B to expand its data-driven healthcare products tailored to individuals

Walgreens steps up focus on home health with $330M CareCentrix deal

Indian insurtech Zopper scores $75M in Series C funding

Redesign Health which helps build, launch and find funding for digital health startups, gets $65M of its own funding

Healthcare data analytics startup PurpleLab raised $40M in a Series B funding?

Connected pillbox maker MedMinder receives $35M

Supplemental benefits startup Soda Health scooped up $25M in Series A funding

98point6 on-demand virtual primary care company raises $20M, partners with MultiCare's Indigo Health to expand access to care

Otolith Labs scores $20M for vertigo treatment headband

Vision benefits company XP Health raises $17.1M in Series A funding

Psych Hub, which offers mental health educational resources for practitioners and consumers, raised $16M

Fair Square Medicare secures $15M to build out digital care navigator for seniors

Credentialing and licensing platform CertifyOS gets $14.5M Series A funding?

Lung-health company Optellum announced?closing a $14M Series A funding?

Olio Health raises $13M aiming to be glue between acute and post-acute providers

Patient engagement and navigation platform?Upfront?raised $10.5M in Series C funding

Lyfegen raises $8M for value-based contracting platform

German mental health startup Sympatient scores €7.5M for digital anxiety clinic

Power, which offers a search tool for patients to find and enroll in clinical trials raised $7M in seed

Pattern Health scores $3.3M for no-code digital health creation platform

Smart stethoscope company?Eko?received $2.7M grant from the NIH to develop a machine learning algorithm to detect & classify pulmonary hypertension

Halo, which offers a platform that aims to connect companies and scientists for research and development, raised $2.6M in seed funding

Healee lands $2M to grow customizable telehealth solution in the U.S.

Singaporean startup FathomX scores $1.6M to hasten breast cancer AI development

Online allergy startup Allermi raises $1.25M in pre-seed round

BabyLiveAdvice, which provides virtual maternal and infant healthcare closed a $1.1M seed round