Online special education and mental health services company eLuma has appointed Andy Myers as CEO.
eLuma, a Leeds Equity Partners company, provides mental health and behavioral support offerings, including speech-language teletherapy, for K-12 schools.
Myers brings expertise in scaling operations to eLuma and previously held positions at learning and mentoring nonprofit Waterford, SaaS learning...
GE HealthCare named Dr. Taha Kass-Hout as the newly spun-out company's first chief technology officer.
Kass-Hout comes to GE from Amazon Web Services, where he served as vice president of machine learning and chief medical officer. He was also chief health informatics officer at the FDA for two terms during the Obama Administration and director of information science and informatics for the CDC...
Australian med tech startup Nutromics has named US-based Dr Agim Beshiri as its first chief medical officer.
Dr Beshiri has over two decades of experience in the diagnostic space, specialising in laboratory medicine and internal medicine. He was recently a senior medical director at Abbott Laboratories, the maker of the Freestyle Libre and Lingo biosensors.
He will be leading Nutromics'...
The reimbursement channel for digital health apps in Europe has traditionally been long and complex.
But new analysis from Research2Guidance (R2G) predicts reimbursement opportunities will improve significantly over the next few years.
An R2G report has categorised European countries into groups of leaders, fast followers, certifiers and laggards, based on their public health insurance system’s...
The German Federal Institute für Drugs and Medical Devices (BfArM) has added a new digital therapeutic to its digital health applications (DiGA) directory for public reimbursement.
Cara Care is the first DiGA that addresses gastroenterological issues and widespread digestive health problems such as Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), food and reflux intolerances.
The...
Venture investment in healthcare nearly doubled in Europe last year, rising from $8.4 billion (€7.4bn) in 2020 to $13.9 billion (€12.2bn) in 2021, according to a report by Silicon Valley Bank (SVB).
The annual Healthcare Investments and Exits report found that healthtech funding in Europe almost doubled from $1.36 billion (€1.2bn) in 2020 to $2.6 billion (€2.2bn) in 2021.
European investment in...
Healthtech startup Lottie raises £2.5M for social care platform
British healthtech startup Lottie has announced £2.5 million funding from Kindred Capital VC bringing the company's valuation to £28 million.
Lottie’s website collects data and insights to help users find the most appropriate care homes in the UK at a fair price.
The new funding will go towards improving the firm’s digital platform...
A €30M Series A funding raise has been announced by the Berlin-based startup Formel Skin, a telehealth pioneer for dermatology.
The investment was led by Singular and Heal Capital, supported by Cherry Ventures, Heartcore Capital and Vorwerk Ventures, and will be invested in further development and expansion of the company’s digital platform for long-term remote skin care.
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As the...
A new harmonised regulation on health technology assessment has been adopted across the EU.
The European Commission welcomed the regulation, a deliverable of the EU Pharmaceutical Strategy, which will apply from January 2025.
Work to implement the new rules will start immediately, including the setting up of the necessary governance structure and preparatory documents to ensure effective...
HelloBetter, a German organisation focused on digital therapy courses, has announced the release of a new online programme that is a reimbursable digital health application (DiGA) for German doctors and patients.
The digital therapy course targets type 1 and type 2 diabetics with depressive symptoms.
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According to HelloBetter founder Dr David Ebert, Professor of Psychology and...
