An app by Swedish mental health startup Flow has become the highest scoring free depression treatment in the ORCHA app library, which evaluates and distributes health apps for governments and health and social care organisations worldwide.
The Flow app uses evidence-based psychology and neuroscience research to help patients understand, treat and prevent depression. It achieved a 72% rating at ORCHA.
Its inclusion in ORCHA’s app library means that NHS trusts and healthcare professionals using the platform, can now directly recommend Flow to their patients. NHS organisations in around 50% of NHS regions offer libraries on ORCHA.
After downloading Flow, patients are guided by a virtual therapist who offers personalised behavioural therapy, mood tracking and curated videos across areas proven to reduce symptoms of depression, including nutrition, exercise and sleep.
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During the current COVID-19 pandemic, Flow says that healthcare professionals can use its app to give patients a good understanding of what they can do to improve their mental health.
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Flow’s app works alongside the Flow headset, an at-home brain stimulation headset treatment for depression, which has been medically approved in the EU and UK.
Last year, the startup landed $1.5m in funding in a round led by Khosla Ventures, which it will use towards rolling out its products in Europe.
Source: Mobihealth News
