Digital Mental Health Company Head space and employer health technology company blank pulse announced an expanded partnership in which Virgin members will have full access to Headspace within its AI-powered health and wellness platform.
Headspace will be fully integrated with Virgin Pulse’s Homebase for Health platform, providing Virgin’s employer, health plan and health system members access to psychiatry, therapy, clinical care, self-guided care services , behavioral health coaching, and Headspace employee assistance. Assistance to employees on demand,
The offer goes beyond the already established partnership in which Headspace was available to Virgin Pulse customers through its partner ecosystem.
Headspace’s offerings will also be available to Virgin Pulse’s approximately 2,000 employees worldwide.
“The deepening of Headspace and Virgin Pulse offerings, including the addition of Headspace’s Full Replacement EAP, enables employers and health plans to offer more seamless and engaging mental health benefits. Our combined service set and highly aligned brings physical and mental health care together in one powerful and engaging platform through Virgin Pulse,” said Katie DiPerna Cook, senior vice president of partnerships at Headspace. MobiHealthNews in an email.
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In May, Virgin Pulse announced it has expanded its Homebase for Health platform to include AI-enabled personalized workforce wellness tools that create a 360-degree view of populations, generate millions of insights every minute and expand the social determinants of health data.
The database also allows Virgin to find the member’s data lookalike, a virtual representation of the member. The business can then fill in the gaps about the member by using data matching to help the system prepare and respond to a member’s needs.
The researchers say The emergence of digital twin technology in healthcare can bring many benefits, including real-time monitoring, accurate disease treatment options, and dynamic analysis. However, the effectiveness of the technology may depend on the accuracy of the simulation, and socio-ethical risks may exist for its use in healthcare, including reduced confidentiality.
Another company using digital twins in healthcare is a clinical trial technology company Unlearn.ai, which uses machine learning to create digital twins of participants in randomized controlled trials. The startup pitches the technology as a way to conduct smaller clinical trials faster because researchers don’t need to find as many participants for the control group.
Unlearn.ai tagged $50 million in Series B funding in 2022. In March, the company announced adds Mira Muratichief technology officer at Microsoft Open AIto its board of directors.
