The latest news and blogs from DigitalHealth.London, our Accelerator and Launchpad companies, Digital Pioneer Fellows and the wider network.
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital’s patients will receive mental help peer support from MeeTwo, funded by the hospital’s charity CW+. The service will provide safe, fully moderated peer support to young patients undergoing physical or mental health treatment.
All the latest news, information on events, and other relevant opportunities – including another award in the bag for DigitalHealth.London, new investment opportunities available, and can an app really put a sleep problem to bed?
Stephen East is a Programme Lead and Senior Technical Architect at Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust. Having previously struggled to describe his role and what it means for digital health, he has re-branded himself as the “digital plumber.” Here, he explains why.
Local health and care systems across London are working together to improve how health and care services are delivered and experienced. In part, this is about making health and care information more consistent, more joined-up and more available to the clinicians, patients and families who need it.
Data shows the digital health sector was supported by $14.6bn of venture capital funding last year – we spoke to a digital health venture specialist about the opportunities and their new Call.
MeeTwo, the mental help app for young people, won two of the country’s acclaimed Tech4Good Awards. The People’s Choice Award was decided on the outcome of a four week long crowdfunder, which MeeTwo used to raise awareness of and support the 1 in 4 boys aged 16-25 that self-harm.
Good Thinking, the NHS-approved digital mental wellbeing service for London, has partnered with DigitalHealth.London Accelerator company My Possible Self to help more Londoners who are experiencing common mental wellbeing concerns improve how they feel every day
All the latest news, information on events, and other relevant opportunities – including publishing our impact, final call for companies looking for funding, and apply to attend our Accelerator’s September launch event.
RYSE Asset Management LLP, the digital health and medical technology specialist investment boutique, has extended its partnership with award-winning DigitalHealth.London and MedCity for a further two funding programmes after the successful closing of the initial programme of 2018.
AI and digital therapeutics feature in this piece, which gives an insight into DigitalHealth.London’s Programme Director Yinka Makinde’s life in one of the most exciting and fast-moving industries in the world: healthtech.
We are delighted to be recognised, especially given the increasingly complex environment in which we operate. We believe that many of the challenges faced by the health and social care sector are not insurmountable: we are passionate about the potential of digital technologies to help face them down.
Rose struggled with her sleep for years, until she tried an app promising to deliver life-changing improvements through access to cognitive behavioural therapy techniques, usually taught through in-person therapy. Here, she writes about her experience using Sleepio, and ultimately asks “can an app can really help you sleep better?”