Feb 17, 2022

Health #48 - 🚗 Uber for mental health?

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The latest news and information about innovations in healthcare!

Welcome back to Health Digest! This is the 48th iteration of this newsletter. I hope you enjoy this quick in-look into the crazy world of healthcare.

Welcome to the 26 new Digest readers who have joined us since last edition!

As always, we’ll follow a 5️⃣ - 1️⃣ - 1️⃣ format. Reach out with any comments, questions, or feedback. You can find me @dan_cimaglia.

5️⃣ articles

Therapy apps are the Ubers of mental health — they promise to disrupt a broken system, but instead they shortchange therapists and offer patients

Therapy apps like BetterHelp and Talkspace are addressing the failures of mental healthcare with a flawed, profit-driven Silicon Valley mindset.

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Banner | Aetna partners with Virta Health on diabetes reversal

The collaboration gives Banner | Aetna’s fully insured and employer group members access to the virtual, provider-led diabetes program.

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Here’s a Twitter thread I wrote on Virta Health - such an incredible company, with even more incredible success…

Dan Cimaglia

@dan_cimaglia

A small part of my job @try_headway allows me to dig into companies. Some really stand out to me, and I'm going to start writing about them!

One of those is @virtahealth...

Virta is trying to solve the US' diabetes epidemic - which affects a mind-blowing 100 million Americans:

1:01 AM - 29 Dec 2021

Thirty Madison to merge with Nurx, expanding virtual specialty care services

Telehealth unicorn Thirty Madison will merge with female-focused virtual care company Nurx to support over 750,000 active patients, the companies announced Wednesday.

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Amazon expanding healthcare service to 20 more cities, lands Silicon Labs, Whole Foods Market as customers

Amazon has signed on three more companies for its virtual and in-person healthcare services as it continues to target the employer market.

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RPM 101: What Is Remote Patient Monitoring, Its Benefits, and Uses?

Remote patient monitoring programs, technologies, and protocols are becoming increasingly popular, backed by growing clinical evidence and a slew of non-clinical benefits.

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1️⃣ podcast

How to Fix the Hot Mess of U.S. Healthcare

Medicine has evolved from a calling into an industry, adept at dispensing procedures and pills (and gigantic bills), but less good at actual health. Most reformers call for big, bold action. What happens if, instead, you think small?

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1️⃣ quote

It’s too early to tell how disruptive apps like BetterHelp and Talkspace will be in the mental health industry, but if the history of other Silicon Valley tech companies is any guide, then many people — workers and patients — could get hurt along the way.

P.E. Moskowitz, Insider, (first article linked above)

Get in touch!

Dan Cimaglia (@dan_cimaglia) | Twitter

The latest Tweets from Dan Cimaglia (@dan_cimaglia). Health plan strategy + partnerships @try_headway | Healthcare Digest Curator @Techstars @StartupDigest | @msbgu alum. New York, USA

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Dan Cimaglia
dan.cimaglia@startupdigestmail.com

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