The U.K. National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has opened a consultation on the use of five digital health products that can be used to help children and adolescents better manage anxiety or low mood.
Predictive analytics startup Intus Care Inc. scooped up $14.1 million in a series A round led by Deerfield Management. The funds will be used to advance and scale its software platform for geriatric care.
Israeli technology startup foundry Team8 Labs Ltd. has established a new digital health arm aimed at building and scaling digital health companies. The company plans to create six to eight digital health care companies over the next five years, infusing each with $5 million to $10 million in seed money plus additional resources and services.
Vicore Pharma Holding AB and its partner Alex Therapeutics AB reported positive results from the U.S. pilot phase of a study assessing the effects of digitally delivered cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) in treating anxiety in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). The four-week study in 10 patients found the digital therapeutic, called Almee, functioned properly, was safe and the user experience was favorable.
Biogen Inc. presented new data showing how applying artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and radiomics can produce actionable insights on multiple sclerosis (MS) disease progression. The results, released at this week’s European Committee for Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis (ECTRIMS) Congress, could help to advance new digital health tools to improve monitoring and quality of life of MS patients.
Endpoint solutions company Clario Inc. has published a roadmap on how artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to improve the experience of patients participating in decentralized clinical trials (DCTs).
Spectral MD Holdings Ltd. has delivered stark evidence of the need for its Deepview wound imaging system, in a study showing that medics in emergency rooms making initial judgments on the severity of burns were accurate only in 74% of cases. The critical feature is the depth of a burn.
Heartbeam Inc. has been awarded a patent for what it called “the first and only” 3D-vector, 12-lead ECG platform for heart attack detection, this in conjunction with a credit card-sized device inside a consumer’s wallet for personal monitoring. The company said it can record and remotely transmit a set of cardiac signals to a physician for review so that patients at high risk of cardiac arrest are not left alone deciding if an ER visit is warranted.
In a development that is a potential boon for wearables and other sectors of the digital health industry, the U.K.’s NICE has petitioned the National Health Service (NHS) to expand its coverage of devices that monitor patients with Parkinson’s disease. That data would be used by NICE to inform a health technology assessment that might ultimately boost sales of these devices if the data suggest a strong benefit to patients and to the U.K. health care budget.
Novo Nordisk A/S received marketing approval from China’s NMPA for its smart insulin pen Novopen Six that automatically collects and stores the date and time of injections and the number of units of insulin that users take.
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