PureTech historically has focused on creating new biotech and medical device technologies. CEO and founder Daphne Zohar explains PureTech’s move into digital therapeutics, including companies that use sound and games to promote good health.

Psilos CEO Steve Krupa gets some well deserved time in the spotlight after hosting half a year’s worth of podcasts. In this interview we ask Steve why he agreed to host the podcast, how he become a VC, and how companies might pitch ideas to Psilos.

Quartet Health recently closed on a $40 million second round to build a support platform for behavorial health patients. The company partners with health systems to provide consistent online support for their patients. Investors include former Congressman Patrick Kennedy, GV (formerly Google Ventures), F-Prime Capital Partners, Polaris Partners and others.

Telemedicine player Pager is working with insurers and physicians to allow sick people to get treated in their homes. CEO and Co-founder Gaspard de Dreuzy explains how Pager is working to cut health care costs.

CEO and co-founder Owen Tripp goes back to share the origins of Grand Rounds’ mission, a meeting over coffee and pastries with co-founder Lawrence “Rusty” Hoffman, MD, to help patients find the appropriate doctor for their specific needs and diagnosis. Our Steve “Scoop” Krupa also digs up a bit of news.

Pear Therapeutics CEO Corey McCann, MD, PhD delves into the potential digital therapeutics have in helping people who abuse drugs and alcohol. The company’s product pipeline includes potential treatment for schizophrenia, combat-PTSD, generalized anxiety disorder, insomnia and traumatic brain injury.

With the blessing of UnitedHealthcare, CEO Tom Vanderheyden left the insurance giant to create a company that puts primary care front and center. With doctors seeing fewer patients and health coaches leading the way, can the company create a healthier – and less expensive – patient population?

Health care doesn’t just happen at hospitals. Start-up Healthify is building a software platforms to help patients stay healthy after they’ve left the hospital or physicians office by tracking and managing their basic needs.

AiCure is taking a simple, but critical step to ensuring people get healthier. Its system of ensuring meds are taken can improve care and help bolster clinical trial performances.

Behavioral health isn’t always seen as an integral part of health care, but Care Management Technologies is breaking down those walls.