Headspace Well being lays off 4% of workers and extra digital well being briefs

Headspace Well being confirmed it has laid off 50 staff, or about 4% of its workforce.

First reported by Bloomberg, the cuts on the meditation and psychological well being firm are the most recent in a spate of layoffs at digital well being and well being tech corporations this yr. 

Calm, one other meditation app that has been increasing with scientific psychological well being choices,  laid off 20% of its workers in August. 

Click on Therapeutics introduced Friday it had obtained FDA Breakthrough System Designation for a prescription digital therapeutic for episodic migraine.

CT-132 is underneath improvement as an adjunctive preventive therapy for episodic migraine in grownup sufferers. The Breakthrough Device Designation isn’t a advertising approval from the FDA, but it surely goals to speed up assessment of merchandise that might assist deal with debilitating or life-threatening situations.

Click on stated it has accomplished or began three scientific research on the migraine therapeutic. It’s going to use the information from these trials to undergo the FDA for regulatory clearance.

“We’re thrilled to obtain this Breakthrough designation as it would facilitate collaborative discussions with the FDA and assist expedite the method of bringing a first-in-class migraine digital therapeutic to sufferers,” Austin Speier, chief technique officer of Click on Therapeutics, stated in an announcement. “That is additionally highly effective recognition of the progressive work led by our in-house science and improvement groups to create a brand new method to treating migraine, one supported by early, promising scientific information.”

Earlier this yr, the corporate secured a $15 million mortgage from Silicon Valley Financial institution, which might go towards retiring an present mortgage and advancing its product pipeline. It raised $52 million in Sequence B funding in 2021. 

Texas-based Superior HealthPlan introduced a house care partnership this week with MedArrive and digital behavioral well being supplier Courageous Well being. 

This system will use MedArrive’s paramedics, EMTs and different suppliers to supply in-home diagnostics, well being assessments and preventative care. If sufferers have larger acuity wants, dwelling suppliers can join with physicians through telehealth. They’ll additionally assist with transportation issues, mobility points and diet help in addition to provide entry to psychological healthcare by way of Courageous.

This system will initially be supplied to about 40,000 Superior plan members.

“We’re proud to companion with MedArrive and Courageous Well being on this initiative, which can develop our talents to supply high quality healthcare to lots of our members,” Dr. David Harmon, chief medical director at Superior HealthPlan, stated in an announcement. “This new collaboration paves the way in which for hands-on, personalised and built-in companies offered by MedArrive and Courageous Well being, and we imagine our members will vastly profit from this new relationship.”

Digital musculoskeletal (MSK) well being firm IncludeHealth is teaming up with Yale New Haven Well being System to supply a hybrid MSK care mannequin for the system’s sufferers.

The mannequin combines Yale New Haven’s in-person companies with digital bodily remedy offered at dwelling utilizing IncludeHealth’s Musculoskeletal Working System. The partnership started early this yr at Yale New Haven Hospital, and choices will now scale throughout the well being system.

“We’re grateful to companion with such a well-respected scientific group as Yale New Haven Well being,” Ryan Eder, CEO of IncludeHealth, stated in an announcement. “We’re sturdy believers in a hybrid mannequin of care, placing our expertise within the palms of a affected person’s trusted supplier to strengthen the patient-clinician relationship. We look ahead to the affect this may have on affected person entry and outcomes.”

Based on a filing with the Securities and Change Fee, IncludeHealth raised $10.7 million earlier this yr.