Eating disorders have a high mortality rate compared with other mental health conditions, but many people struggle to access treatment. According to a report by STRIPED, the Academy for Eating Disorders and Deloitte Access Economics, 28.8 million Americans alive in 2018 and 2019 will have an eating disorder at some point in their lives.
Equip, a virtual eating disorder treatment company, aims to...
An app can track the calories you consume. A wearable monitors your step count, urging you to get active if your number is too low. That same watch might be able to evaluate your sleep too, even monitor your blood oxygen levels.
With a variety of methods on the market to track and measure your body, when is fitness-tracking and calorie-counting, especially for weight loss, too much? In the midst...
Virtual eating disorder treatment Equip announced Thursday it’s expanding into Colorado, Florida, Georgia and Illinois.
The at-home model engages the patient’s family in treatment and pairs the patient with a care team that includes a therapist, dietician and physician alongside family and peer mentors.
Equip said its program will be covered through Optum immediately in Colorado, Florida and...
Equip, a virtual eating disorder treatment program, has closed a Series A financing round worth $13 million led by Optum Ventures.
The round also had participation from new investor .406 Ventures and existing investor F-Prime Capital, which led Equip's previous seed round. Together, the rounds bring Equip's total funding to $17 million.
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Equip uses virtual family-based treatment (FBT...
Google briefly tested, but has either removed or planned to remove, a feature in Google Maps that automatically added calorie counts to walking routes, and even expressed the number of calories as an equivalent number of "mini-cupcakes."
The feature was rolled out on a test basis to some iOS users, but was rapidly panned on Twitter. In addition to a general feeling that the app was shaming or...
Noom Coach, the company's current consumer wellness app.
Wellness app maker Noom will work with both the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai hospital in New York and Kaiser Permanente on a 12-week, 200-person trial of a new mobile health app for eating disorders called Noom Monitor, according to a new posting on ClinicalTrials.gov.
Noom picked up an NIH grant to develop and test Noom...
Researchers at the University of Alabama have developed a diet-tracking sensor that collects information based on the wearer's chewing.
The sensor, called Automatic Ingestion Monitor, or AIM, is fitted around the user's ear and monitors vibrations from jaw movement. AIM is programmed to ignore jaw motions from talking. This data, paired with pictures the user would take of their meals, would give...
