XRHealth, a digital clinic, has secured $6 million in funding, which it should use to help its latest merger with Amelia Digital Care and develop an AI-based clinician, the corporate introduced Tuesday at CES 2024.

Boston-based XRHealth provides FDA-cleared digital actuality and augmented actuality know-how to deal with sufferers of their properties for quite a lot of use circumstances throughout psychological, bodily and occupational well being. This contains the therapy of continual ache, anxiousness, fibromyalgia and dementia. The corporate sells its know-how to hospitals and rehab facilities. It additionally operates its personal digital clinics that embody clinicians, bodily therapists, occupational therapists, social employees and psychologists. On this mannequin, XRHealth ships its headsets to sufferers’ properties, treats them remotely after which payments insurance coverage firms. When the affected person makes use of the headset, the clinician is all the time supporting the affected person just about.

“We nonetheless consider the clinician must be an integral a part of the software program,” mentioned Eran Orr, CEO and founding father of XRHealth, in an interview. “So the clinician is the one principally working several types of software program after which using no matter they see match.”

The $6 million in funding was led by Asabys Companions and included participation from NOVA Prime Fund. In complete, XRHealth has raised greater than $40 million. NOVA Prime Fund invested within the startup as a result of its “use of superior applied sciences in its healthcare platform units it aside as an progressive answer for healthcare,” mentioned Ali Diallo, managing director at NOVA Prime Fund, in an announcement.

The financing will help XRHealth’s merger with Amelia Digital Care. XRHealth was centered on bodily remedy, whereas Amelia Digital Care was centered on psychological well being. The merger was introduced final yr with the intent to create a “holistic package deal” for sufferers, Orr mentioned.

XRHealth will even use the funding to develop an AI-based clinician that may provide psychological, bodily and occupational well being therapy.

“I believe within the subsequent few years, you’ll put a VR headset on, you’ll see somebody who seems like your clinician who provides you with steerage and even deal with you. … The explanation why it’s so vital is as a result of we don’t have sufficient clinicians in the present day to deal with sufferers throughout the board,” Orr mentioned. “We have to harness know-how so as to permit individuals to get therapy. … A part of the funding will set up these foundations to permit us to get to that imaginative and prescient.”

Trying forward, Orr mentioned he hopes to push the corporate to be extra worthwhile whereas additionally persevering with to develop the enterprise.

“You’ll want to do each. We should be worthwhile and environment friendly and nonetheless develop as a startup,” he mentioned.

A number of different firms are additionally utilizing VR to deal with well being circumstances, together with BehaVR, AppliedVR and MyndVR. 

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