This morning telehealth giant Amwell snapped up digital mental health company SilverCloud Health and fellow virtual care company Conversa Health for a combined price of $320 million in cash and stocks.
Now based in Boston, Silvercloud was originally a Trinity College Dublin spinout. The startup works with providers and payers to deliver digital mental health programs for common behavioral health...
Digital mental health platform SilverCloud Health, with headquarters in Boston, Dublin and London is making its services available to users nationwide through Ireland's Health Service Executive (HSE).
In 2018, the company partnered with the HSE on a pilot programme to offer online psychological tools for depression and anxiety to primary care psychological services and now plans to expand these...
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April 9, 2020
Digital behavioral-health company SilverCloud raked in an additional $16 million in Series B funding. MemorialCare Innovation Fund led the round with participation from LRVHealth, OSF Ventures and UnityPoint Health Ventures.
This news comes roughly three years after its $8.1 million raise led by B Capital Group.
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This Boston-headquartered company got its start in Ireland. It was...
Cincinnati, Ohio-based patient and provider engagement company PatientPoint is teaming up with the American Medical Association to help improve the prevention, identification and management of Type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. As part of the collaboration, the tech company will be disseminating AMA-developed chronic disease education and engagement content through its point of care...
While it may be better known as the European home of several larger health and tech companies, the country of Ireland is also home to a number of homegrown health tech startups. Many of these are looking to expand into new markets and, if the recent North America Healthcare Summit in Dublin was any indication, they have the full support of their government.
“The indigenous sector is a hugely...
Digital behavioral health company SilverCloud, which makes an online platform of mental health and wellbeing programs for health systems and healthcare organizations, has raised $8.1 million in a round led by B Capital Group, the venture capital firm founded by Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin. ACT Ventures, Investec Ventures and AIB Seed Capital fund also contributed.
The SilverCloud platform...
Accenture held a webcast today diving into five trends the consulting firm has identified as major driving forces right now in digital health. Report author and Senior Global Managing Director for Accenture Health Dr. Kaveh Safavi was joined by health economist and blogger Jane Sarasohn-Kahn to discuss the five trends.
The first trend, "Intelligent Automation", covers a range of tools that...
Ieso Digital Health, one of the apps in the NHS's new library.
The National Health Service in the UK is taking steps to create a curated database of government-approved mobile health apps, starting in the area of mental health. NHS England launched a library of five approved apps on its NHS Choices website, which gets 40 million visits per month, according to the NHS.
As a large public health...
