2022年2月23日

美国东部标准时间2022年2月23日上午11:34加利福尼亚州山景城——(美国商业资讯)——Psious (Psico Smart Apps SL)是一家领先的心理健康专业人员虚拟现实(VR)平台，今天宣布已更名为Amelia Virtual Care，并聘请数字健康资深人士Afsana Akhter担任总裁兼首席执行官。这个新品牌是向航空先驱阿米莉亚·埃尔哈特致敬，与公司的使命、愿景和发展相一致，因为它将循证技术推向市场，帮助临床医生提供心理健康服务，并巩固了其在VR医疗保健领域的世界领导者地位。Akhter是一位高度战略的跨职能领导者，拥有20多年的领导经验，并在不断发展的数字健康公司中屡获成功，包括Livongo health, Kiio, Prealize health和Medullan。阿克特将领导阿米莉亚的扩张，因为它有助于满足美国和全球对心理健康服务的前所未有的需求。Amelia Virtual Care创始人兼执行董事长Xavier Palomer表示:“Amelia Virtual Care正处于我们历史上一个令人兴奋的转折点。“Covid-19打破了人们对心理健康的耻辱感，医疗保健提供商寻求在远程环境中提供吸引人的患者体验的新方法，VR技术变得更加主流和负担得起。这些因素的结合创造了推动VR在医疗保健领域应用的完美风暴，在2021年，Amelia Virtual Care的业务增长了一倍多。我们准备在2022年实现更大的增长，我相信阿夫萨纳是能够带领我们实现这一目标的领导者。她的背景、商业愿景和对我们使命的信念将推动我们为精神健康行业服务，并实现更好的患者护理。与此同时，我们很高兴地宣布我们的新名字，这个名字更好地抓住了我们的创新精神，反映了我们公司的根基，并将我们与精神健康提供者和委托他们护理的患者联系起来。” In her two-plus decades in the digital health and tech industries, Akhter has led sales, product, client success, and marketing teams; successfully executed on go-to-market strategies; and scaled companies across both B2B and B2B2C models. Amelia Virtual Care will benefit from her experience in direct and channel sales to providers, payers, and employers as well as her track record of building and leading cross-functional teams. “I am thrilled to join this amazing team in support of an incredible mission,” said Akhter. “This is a pivotal time in digital health and in mental health, specifically. The pandemic has accelerated technology adoption by both clinicians and consumers. At the same time, the demand for mental health services has grown exponentially. Patients are seeking better experiences and greater access to mental health support while clinicians need tools to help them deliver high-quality care, in-person and remotely. The benefits of virtual reality in mental health are proven through 30 years of scientific research, and adoption of VR is on a fast upward trend. With a proven solution at the intersection of mental health and the metaverse, Amelia Virtual Care is poised for tremendous growth and impact in the coming years.” Amelia Virtual Care’s VR platform is the most comprehensive in the market with more than 140 VR environments in multiple languages that can be used by clinicians to help them treat a variety of conditions, including phobias and social anxiety. Today, more than 2,000 mental health professionals use the platform worldwide and have conducted over 150,000 VR sessions. Akhter holds her Bachelor’s and Master in Engineering degrees from MIT and serves as the Chair of the Healthcare and Life Sciences Forum for the MIT Club of Northern California. She is based in Mountain View, California. Amelia Virtual Care is mainly backed by Barcelona-based Asabys Partners, Caixa Capital Risc, CDTI, and Banc Sabadell. About Amelia Virtual Care Amelia Virtual Care provides evidence-based virtual reality tools for mental health professionals to use in their practice. The company’s VR platform is used by over 2,000 therapists across the globe to enhance patient therapy for both in-person and remote environments. www.ameliavirtualcare.com Contacts