The hazards of digital mental health Event: Mobihealthnews examined the lack of scientific evidence backing digital mental health apps, noting “investors and entrepreneurs alike are pouring record time and resources into digital health” including almost $600 million into behavioral health. With the explosive growth in digital mental health services, concerns have arisen due to unclear evidence of whether or not their products actually work. Background: Many digital health com

On Wednesday August 5th, two of the larger public names in the digital health space, Teledoc (TDOC) and Livongo (LVGO) announced they were merging, while we understand the stated logic behind the merger, we were a bit puzzled by several issues, our thoughts on each of them are below: Timing: there is a tremendous amount of runway for both of these industry-leading companies to grab before they are likely to stunt the growth of the other. No matter how well-executed or how exp