A patient uses Mind from Sword Health.

患者使用了Sword Health的Mind产品。

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Sword Health

剑健康

, a startup focused on helping people deal with pain through digital services, is expanding into mental health and has raised additional capital to fuel its growth.

，一家专注于通过数字服务帮助人们应对疼痛的初创公司，正在向心理健康领域扩展，并筹集了更多资金来推动其增长。

The 10-year-old company is introducing Mind, which uses a combination of

这家成立十年的公司正在推出 Mind，它使用了一种结合了

artificial intelligence

人工智能

, hardware and human mental health professionals to treat patients with mild depression and anxiety. Sword said Mind will help users access care whenever they need it, rather than during sporadic, hourlong appointments.

，硬件和人类心理健康专业人士将治疗轻度抑郁和焦虑的患者。Sword表示Mind将帮助用户在需要的时候获得护理，而不是在零星的、长达一小时的预约期间。

'It's really a breakthrough in terms of how we address mental health, and this is only possible because we have AI,' Sword CEO Virgílio Bento told CNBC in an interview.

“这确实是我们解决心理健康问题的一个突破，而这仅仅因为有了人工智能才成为可能，”Sword首席执行官维尔吉里奥·贝托在接受CNBC采访时表示。

Also on Tuesday, Sword announced a $40 million funding round, led by General Catalyst, in a deal that values the company at $4 billion. The fresh cash will support Sword's efforts to grow through acquisitions, as well as its global expansion and AI model development, the company said.

周二，Sword还宣布了一轮由General Catalyst领投的4000万美元融资，此交易对公司的估值为40亿美元。该公司表示，这笔新资金将支持Sword通过收购实现增长的努力，以及其全球扩张和AI模型开发。

The round included participation from Khosla Ventures,

本轮融资包括Khosla Ventures的参与，

Comcast

康卡斯特

Ventures and other firms. Sword had raised a total of more than $450 million as of September, according to PitchBook.

根据 PitchBook 的数据，截至九月，Sword 已筹集了超过 4.5 亿美元的资金。

The financing lands as the digital health market shows signs of recovery following a difficult post-Covid stretch, when rising inflation, higher interest rates and a return to in-person activities led to a dramatic retreat in the industry.

融资到来之际，数字健康市场在经历了新冠疫情后的艰难时期后显示出复苏迹象，当时通胀上升、利率提高以及线下活动的回归导致该行业急剧衰退。

Earlier this month,

本月初，

Omada Health

欧姆达健康

, which offers virtual care programs to supports patients with chronic conditions such as diabetes and hypertension, held its

，该公司提供虚拟护理项目，支持糖尿病和高血压等慢性病患者，举办了其

Nasdaq debut

纳斯达克上市

, though the stock is trading below its initial public offering price. Weeks before that, digital physical therapy provider

，尽管该股票的交易价格低于其首次公开募股价格。几个星期前，数字物理治疗提供商

Hinge Health

铰链健康

hit

命中

the New York Stock Exchange. The shares are trading a few dollars above their offer price.

纽约证券交易所。这些股票的交易价格比发行价高几美元。

Sword, which was founded in Portugal and is now based in New York, offers tools for digital physical therapy, pelvic health and movement health to help patients manage pain from home and avoid other treatments such as opioids and surgery. Patients can sign up for Sword if it's supported by their employer or their health plan..

Sword公司成立于葡萄牙，现在总部位于纽约，提供数字物理治疗、骨盆健康和运动健康工具，帮助患者在家管理疼痛，避免其他治疗方案，如阿片类药物和手术。如果患者的雇主或健康计划支持Sword，他们就可以注册使用。

Mind users will receive a wrist wearable called the 'M-band' that can measure environmental and physiological signals such as heart rate, sleep and the lighting in a user's environment. Mind also includes access to an AI Care agent and human mental health professionals, who can deliver services such as traditional talk therapy. .

Mind 用户将收到一款名为“M-band”的腕戴设备，可以测量环境和生理信号，例如心率、睡眠以及用户环境中的光线。Mind 还包括接入 AI Care 助手和人类心理健康专家的服务，他们能够提供传统谈话疗法等服务。

Bento said a human is always involved with a patient's care, and that AI is not making clinical decisions.

贝恩托说，人类始终参与患者的护理，人工智能并未做出临床决策。

For example, if a patient has an anxiety attack, Sword's AI will recognize that and could ask a clinician to approve some physical activity for later that day to help with recovery. The clinician would either approve the physical activity that the AI suggested, or override it and propose something else. .

例如，如果患者出现焦虑发作，Sword 的人工智能将识别并可能要求临床医生批准当天晚些时候进行一些体育活动以帮助康复。临床医生可以批准人工智能建议的体育活动，或者否决并提出其他建议。

'You have an anxiety issue today, and the way you're going to manage is to talk about it one week from now? That just doesn't work,' Bento said. 'Mental health should be always on, where you have a problem now, and you can have immediate help in the moment.'

“你今天有焦虑问题，而你打算一周后才谈论它来管理它？这根本行不通，”本托说。“心理健康应该始终在线，你当下有问题，就应该能够立即得到帮助。”

Bento said Sword has some clients that have been on a waiting list for Mind, and the startup has been testing the offering with some of its design partners. He said early users have approved of Mind's personalized approach and convenience.

Bento 表示，Sword 有一些客户一直在等待 Mind 的名单上，该初创公司也一直在与一些设计合作伙伴测试这项服务。他说，早期用户对 Mind 的个性化方法和便利性表示认可。

'We believe that it is really the future of how mental health is going to be delivered in the future, by us and by other companies,' Bento said. 'AI plays a very important role, but the use of AI — and I think this is very important — needs to be used in a very smart way.'

“我们相信，这确实是未来心理健康服务的发展方向，无论是我们还是其他公司，”贝托说。“人工智能扮演着非常重要的角色，但人工智能的使用——我认为这一点非常重要——需要以非常明智的方式进行。”

Disclosure: Comcast, the parent of Comcast Ventures, is the owner of NBCUniversal, parent company of CNBC.

披露：康卡斯特风险投资公司的母公司康卡斯特是NBCUniversal的拥有者，而NBCUniversal是CNBC的母公司。

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