Woebot Health, maker of an AI-powered mental health chatbot, announced it signed a three-year agreement with Ohio-based nonprofit pediatric healthcare system Akron Children's to provide pediatric mental health support to adolescents 13 to 17 years.
Woebot's nonprescription digital mental health tool includes content specific to teens, including media literacy, bullying in school settings, and...
San Francisco-based predictive health company Potrero Medical has added former U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Dr. David Shulkin, to its advisory board.
Shulkin has had a decades-long career in healthcare, from working at the higher echelons of the private healthcare sector to an appointment by President Obama as Undersecretary for Health at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in 2015....
After nearly 25 years at Kaiser Permanente, Trina Histon recently took on a new challenge at Woebot Health, the company behind a chatbot for mental healthcare.
Histon's new role as vice president of clinical product strategy will focus on integrating Woebot into clinical care. She previously spent several years at Kaiser developing a process to get digital mental health apps from clinicians into...
A study from Singapore has evaluated the effectiveness of mental health chatbots in helping alleviate symptoms of depression.
Previous studies have pointed out chatbots' potential in helping people with depression in treating their symptoms.
This new study by clinician doctors from the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine at Nanyang Technological University Singapore set out to evaluate the...
Babylon announced Thursday the digital health firm had hired Andrew Hine as vice president of the go-to-market team for Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
The company said he'll manage Babylon's contracts and partnerships and work to increase its offerings and services in those regions. Hine joins Babylon from Ernst & Young, where he was head of health for the Middle East and North...
Woebot Health, maker of a mental health chatbot, recently appointed Dr. Robbert Zusterzeel as vice president of regulatory science and strategy.
Zusterzeel comes to Woebot from IQVIA, where he served as senior director of U.S. regulatory science and strategy. He'd previously worked at the FDA for nearly 10 years.
"We believe in and have embraced regulation from the start and have expanded our...
Digital musculoskeletal care company Hinge Health has hired Mario Queiroz as chief product officer.
Queiroz comes to Hinge from cybersecurity firm Palo Alto Networks, where he served as vice president of special projects. He also worked at Google for 14 years and held leadership positions at HP.
"Millions of Americans experience chronic back and joint pain. As someone deeply passionate about...
Woebot Health, maker of an AI-powered mental health chatbot, announced Tuesday it has raised $9.5 million from Leaps by Bayer.
The strategic investment comes about eight months after the company said it had scored $90 million in Series C funding. Last year, Woebot received FDA Breakthrough Device Designation for its digital therapeutic treating postpartum depression.
"Woebot Health’s mission and...
Multimodal healthcare provider Carbon Health has closed a massive $350 million investment round led by Blackstone’s Horizon platform. The new capital brings Carbon Health’s valuation to $3.3 billion, Forbes reports.
Additional participation came from Atreides, Homebrew, Hudson Bay Capital, Intersect Capital, Fifth Wall, Lux Capital, Silver Lake Waterman, Dragoneer Investment Group and Brookfield...
