Kaia Health

The Parallel Learning patient portal
By  Emily Olsen 01:04 pm February 3, 2022
Parallel Learning, a digital health startup focused on diagnosing, treating and supporting children with learning differences, announced two new hires to its executive team. Susan Liu, previously vice president of clinical operations at digital mental health company Cerebral, joins the startup as chief operating officer.  "I'm thrilled to join the Parallel team and to dedicate my focus to...
Clinical team
By  Laura Lovett 01:30 pm November 30, 2021
Just after closing a $100 million funding round, H1 named Ziad Ismail as its new chief operating officer. He comes to H1 from Convoy, where he also served as the chief product officer. He previously held roles at Marchex, CitiKey and Microsoft.  “H1 has amassed an enormous amount of quality healthcare data that life science companies, hospitals and academic medical centers simply cannot find...
A woman doing physical therapy guided by an app, and the same woman being helped by a physical therapist.
By  Emily Olsen 09:21 am November 2, 2021
Kaia Health, maker of digital therapeutics for musculoskeletal (MSK) care and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), is partnering with Luna On-Demand Physical Therapy to offer in-person services to complement its digital options. The collaboration will allow eligible Kaia members to schedule in-person physical therapy appointments in their home or at their workplace. They can also use the...
Kaia
By  Laura Lovett 03:07 pm July 29, 2021
A new study published by JMIR found that the digital physical therapy tool Kaia was able to suggest exercise corrections with comparable accuracy to a physiotherapist. Participants in the study used Kaia’s app, formerly called Motion Coach, which includes automated, real-time exercise feedback that is tracked with the user’s smartphone camera or tablet. The small study examined the corrections...
Kaia Health
By  Sara Mageit 04:33 am April 28, 2021
New York-based Kaia Health has completed a €62 million ($75m) Series C funding round to expand clinical capabilities and treatment services for Musculoskeletal (MSK) and Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) care in the US and Europe. The total raised to date is €103 million ($125m), and was led by an unnamed growth equity fund with support from existing investors, including Optum Ventures...
Kaia app, COPD
By  Tammy Lovell 01:58 am November 30, 2020
Digital therapeutics firm Kaia Health is partnering with Italian pharma firm Chiesi Group to commercialise its chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) rehabilitation app in Europe. The Kaia COPD solution consists of a mobile app and an interface for motivational support that aims to deliver a personalised pulmonary rehabilitation experience through education, daily training sessions and...
By  Laura Lovett 03:26 pm July 21, 2020
New research demonstrated that patients using a digital treatment for nonspecific low back pain report significantly stronger pain reduction compared to their peers receiving the standard of care.  The cluster-randomized study, published in the Journal of Pain Research, compared patients using traditional treatment methods to those using a digital program called Rise-uP, which combined electronic...
By  Sara Mageit 06:49 am July 14, 2020
The Investigating the Effectiveness of Virtual Physiotherapy report by independent provider of physiotherapy, Ascenti, has captured data on patients’ openness to virtual treatment, pain improvements on a 10-point Numerical Rating Scale (NRS) and satisfaction with outcomes. Results showed that it is just as effective as and, in some cases more effective than, in-person treatment. WHY IT MATTERS...
By  Sara Mageit 05:00 am June 18, 2020
Digital therapeutics company for chronic conditions, Kaia Health, today announced that it closed a $26 million Series B funding round, bringing its total funds raised to date to $50 million.  The round was led by Optum Ventures, Idinvest and capital300 with participation from existing investors Balderton Capital and Heartcore Capital, as well as Symphony Ventures, an investment partnership with...
By  Laura Lovett 03:15 am September 17, 2019
This morning digital physical therapy company Kaia Health announced an $8 million funding round led by United Health’s venture arm Optum Ventures. This comes seven months after the company announced that it scored $10 million in a Series A funding round led by Balderton Capital.  WHAT THEY DO Kaia Health got its start with a digital physical therapy platform for back pain, which guides users...