Population and Public Health

During the first six months of the pandemic, 13% of outpatient visits were conducted through telehealth. By March to August 2021, that number slipped to 8%.

A study published in JAMA Network Open found CCBT led to improved depressive symptoms in primary care patients compared with treatment as usual alone.

The Egyptian non-profit has teamed up with GE Healthcare to utilise AI to assess how well a patient is responding to neoadjuvant therapy, commonly used prior to surgery.

Also: Patricia Baran joins personal ECG company AliveCor, while SDOH analytics platform Socially Determined and virtual surgery startup Proximie both add two new members to their executive teams.

In a preview of their HIMSS22 session, Serena Bumpus of Ascension and Stephanie Hoelscher of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center explain their Texas pilot study on crisis documentation during COVID-19 surges and how it could lessen the burden on nurses.

Berlin-based digital health company plans to expand in the US market.

It maps its own sterilisation path by locating areas where the virus is most probably dense. 

The tool will let users look at virus levels in wastewater over the last 15 days. 

Also: Emerging market-focused Reliance Health raises $40 million, insomnia startup Dawn Health rakes in a $1.8 million pre-seed and birth control startup Twentyeight Health adds more Spanish language support.

Plus, PrecisionLife announces first close of Series A financing to progress drug discovery.