Delivering the next generation of digital mental healthcare

Eight Billion Minds is a new digital therapeutics program from Ieso Digital Health with a vision to remove barriers to mental healthcare for millions of people around the world by delivering efficacious and regulated digital therapeutics for prescription use.

1 in 4adults

experience at least 1 diagnosable mental health problem in any year (1).

$16trillion

expected global cost 2010-2030 as a result of inaction to mental illness (2).

200,000hours

of real-world data from Ieso’s internet-enabled CBT platform (3).

By applying deep learning and clinical data science to hundreds of thousands of hours of real-world therapy data, Eight Billion Minds is determining what really works to help patients get better. Eight Billion Minds is developing new technology to deliver accessible and personalised psychological therapy on a global scale.

News

Science

Data-driven insights into effective therapy

How can new technology accelerate the development and delivery of digital therapeutics for mental health conditions?

Due to a global scarcity of therapists, the 1:1 therapy model faces limitations, with millions of people worldwide unable to access mental health treatment. Care quality and patient outcomes are often left unmeasured, with the therapy being delivered only as good as the individual therapist delivering the care.

Eight Billion Minds is addressing these issues and changing the future of how therapy is delivered around the world by using deep learning and data science, applied to its own unique data set, to understand what aspects of therapy really work.

So how do we do this?

1: Capture large volumes of therapy data from Ieso’s internet-enabled cognitive behavioural therapy (ie-CBT) service platform.

2: Apply deep learning, natural language processing (NLP) and clinical science to gain understanding of therapy-related language and what aspects of psychotherapy are most effective, for better targeted interventions.

3: By learning what works in real-world clinical settings, create new clinically engaging and effective digital therapeutics models to address unmet mental health needs which are scalable and autonomous.

4: Share new knowledge to services and clinicians to improve engagement and efficacy of traditional therapy.

Eight Billion Minds is the only company with the data to show which components of therapy are most effective for different types of patient. By learning from the best therapists, Ieso has the ability to improve recovery rates with its ie-CBT tool, and is now taking these learnings to develop scalable digital treatments within Eight Billion Minds to remove barriers to quality mental healthcare globally.

Ieso’s recovery rates surpass normal targets.

Recovery rates consistently improve in consecutive cohorts of 300 patients, which were used in order to control for the reliability of each measure of recovery.

Team

Passionate about improving access to mental health therapy

Dr Nigel Pitchford

Chief Executive Officer

Nigel became CEO of Ieso Digital Health in March 2019, having previously been the Chief Investment Officer and a group board director for Touchstone Innovations plc. Nigel led the team that created Eight Billion Minds, and is highly-regarded within the UK life sciences community, bringing significant fundraising, strategic and operational experience to the company.

Dr Andy Blackwell

Group Chief Science and Strategy Officer

At Ieso Digital Health, Andy’s principle role is to develop and implement a global science and technology strategy to complement the commercial vision of the company. As one of the leads in the development of Eight Billion Minds at Ieso, Andy has been instrumental in creating a business focused on using available real-world therapy data to address the unmet needs in mental health.

Sarah Bateup

Chief Clinical Officer

Sarah is a BABCP (British Association of Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapists) accredited cognitive behavioral therapist, and has delivered over 27,000 hours of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to people across the UK. Sarah is responsible for all clinical management at Ieso, including therapist supervision and quality monitoring, She has been instrumental in analysing the data which will be used by Eight Billion Minds.

Dr Valentin Tablan

Senior VP, Artificial Intelligence

Valentin has spent 20 years in the field of Natural Language Processing, Knowledge Representation, and Artificial Intelligence. As SVP AI, at Ieso, Valentin and his team are responsible for applying advanced deep learning techniques to Ieso’s vast data set to determine which evidence-based therapy interventions are most effective. Under his leadership, Ieso has created the industry’s first AI-enabled tools that augment real-world data to increase quality and improve clinical outcomes.

Dr Jennifer Gentile

Senior VP, US Clinical Operations

Jennifer is a leader in the telehealth industry who provides leadership for US clinical operations and quality, and plays a key role in business and product development. She is responsible for ensuring that patients receive the highest quality care delivered by highly trained therapists supported by AI Therapist Assistants. Dr. Gentile works with key opinion leaders and stakeholders to secure success in the US healthcare marketplace.

Publications

Deep learning study reveals psychotherapy features related to patient improvement

Ieso Digital Health applies deep learning to large-scale clinical data to understand what aspects of psychotherapy content are associated with clinical outcomes. This study demonstrates the potential of what can be learnt when using real-world data and what could be achieved when these methods are applied to improve clinical practice and create digital therapeutics. The paper, ‘Quantifying the association between psychotherapy content and clinical outcomes using deep learning’, is published in JAMA Psychiatry, a peer-reviewed and highly-cited journal globally with more than 4.8 million article views and downloads annually.

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Contact

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Address

The Jeffreys Building
Cowley Road
Cambridge
Cambridgeshire
CB4 0DS

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Global Mental Health Commission
Global Health Observatory Data Repository
Ieso Digital Health dataset. Ieso applies organisational measures to ensure appropriate security and confidentiality of data, and provides transparency via the privacy notices.
World Health Organization Fact Sheet on Depression