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By  Jessica Hagen 01:05 pm December 13, 2022
On Tuesday, VR behavioral health platform BehaVR and OxfordVR, a VR platform for severe mental health issues, announced their merger. The companies say their combination creates the largest virtual reality healthcare delivery platform. The companies, which will unite under the BehaVR brand, also garnered $13 million in Series B funding to support the merger. The round was led by Oxford Science...
By  Leontina Postelnicu 08:11 am November 21, 2018
Oxford-based Sensyne Health announces partnership with EY. Former UK science minister Lord (Paul) Drayson’s Sensyne Health has signed a Strategic Advisory Services agreement with EY to scale up the business and build on its business model. The company has inked partnerships with three NHS trusts in England to analyse anonymised patient data using its clinical AI technology to accelerate medical...
By  Laura Lovett 08:46 am September 20, 2018
Looking to commercialize its virtual reality mental health treatment, Oxford VR has announced that it raked in $4.11 (£3.2 million) in funding. Investors included Oxford Sciences Innovation, University of Oxford, Force Over Mass, RT Capital, and GT Healthcare Capital Partners.  "Our focus is on developing clinically validated, cost-effective, user-centred treatments for clinical conditions with...
By  Heather Mack 07:48 pm July 10, 2017
London-based Drayson Technologies, a healthcare IoT company, is getting a high profile gig and funding to help build out and commercialize digital health tools for the University of Oxford and Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.  Under a five-year, Strategic Research Agreement, the three entities will join forces to develop digital health products based on research from Oxford...
By  Brian Dolan 10:13 am March 13, 2015
The big digital health story this week was, without a doubt, Apple's unveiling of ResearchKit, a forthcoming developer tool that will make it easier for medical researchers to use apps to collect health data for clinical studies. (If you haven't already, be sure to read our original coverage of the ResearchKit announcement right here.) What follows is a comprehensive round-up of the most...