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Headspace Health from the book “How AI Can Democratize Healthcare” by Michael Ferro and Robin Farmanfarmaian

Headspace Health

About Headspace Health Website Headspace Health is a digital behavioral health company. With over $215M of funding, Headspace Health is one of the dominate players in meditation, behavioral health, and inclusivity in behavioral health. Headspace has made a number of acquisitions including Ginger and Shine. Ginger is also covered here and Shine is covered here…

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Tytocare from the book "How AI Can Democratize Healthcare" by Michael Ferro & Robin Farmanfarmaian

TytoCare

About Tytocare Website TytoCare is an FDA cleared telemedicine tool kit that provides a clean chain of custody for vital sign data from clinical grade medical devices. The TytoCare data is HIPAA compliant and secure, and a healthcare professional like a physician or nurse can be virtually present during the exam. That healthcare professional…

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Sonde Health from the book "How AI Can Democratize Healthcare" by Michael Ferro & Robin Farmanfarmaian

Sonde Health

About Sonde Health Website Sonde is an AI voice technology and vocal biomarker startup that turns voice into a vital sign. They have identified 4,000 different vocal features. Sonde can detect the smallest changes in someone’s voice, which could indicate that the person is about to start or has already started to experience some type…

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Shine from the book "How AI Can Democratize Healthcare" by Michael Ferro & Robin Farmanfarmaian

Shine

About Shine Website Shine is a great example of a BIPOC-centered behavioral health app co-founded by Marah Lidey and Naomi Hirabayashi. They initially founded the company because they didn’t see themselves represented in mainstream behavioral health. It turns out, only about 1/3 of Black adults receive the behavioral healthcare they need, and many times it…

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Woebot Health from the book "How AI Can Democratize Healthcare" by Michael Ferro & Robin Farmanfarmaian

Woebot Health

About Woebot Health Website The Woebot mental health chatbot was originally created by Stanford psychologists and has now been used in over 120 countries. Woebot uses one of the gold standards in therapy, Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT), Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT), and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT). These techniques are applied to help the patient with everything…

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Pear Therapeutics from the book "How AI Can Democratize Healthcare" by Michael Ferro & Robin Farmanfarmaian

Pear Therapeutics

About Pear Pear Therapeutics Website Pear Therapeutics is a leader in Digital Therapeutics for many reasons, including their robust pipeline of products. reSET PDT from Pear Therapeutics for Substance Use Disorder Pear had the first digital therapeutic cleared by the FDA and available by prescription only. Pear now has multiple FDA cleared prescription apps on…

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Oxitone Medical from the book "How AI Can Democratize Healthcare" by Michael Ferro & Robin Farmanfarmaian

Oxitone Medical

About: Oxitone Medical Website Oxitone Medical was founded in 2010 and was the first to successfully use and commercialize PPG technology to measure blood oxygen levels through the wrist instead of the finger. Oxitone is a combination of a wearable smart watch that captures blood oxygen levels and corresponding software that works with key healthcare…

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