Digital Health

Why are so few digital mental health tools based in evidence? The answer is complicated. 

Also, Livi and North Tyneside CCG partnership gives 220,000 people free access to digital consultations.

Also: Another smart-mirror workout joins the fray, and Kroger Health launches a back-to-work COVID-19 testing program with telehealth support.

Culled from a pool of nearly 8,000 companies, this year's list of the "most promising" private startups represents over $20 billion in funding from more than 900 unique investors. 

Researchers from Johns Hopkins University and Medicine have developed a robotic system that allows medical staff to remotely control ventilators and other bedside machines from outside the room of patients with infectious diseases.

Parents are prompted to take a survey about risk and lifestyle factors, and are given guidance based on their scores. 

With the accompanying mobile app, users can detect a UTI through immediate testing results and choose to share information with a healthcare professional.

Healthcare organizations must become more collaborative with patients, employees, partners and the public when creating digital innovations to have success in the future, according to research from Accenture.

The arrangement comes alongside new eight-figure investments into the CGM maker, whose business looked to be in dire straits earlier this year.

The system was designed to give users advice about their brushing habits.