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Former vice president Matthew Truebe said he was fired after raising concerns about the company's prescribing practices, alleging Cerebral aimed to prescribe stimulants to all its ADHD patients to increase retention.

Also, study finds digital physiotherapy app is clinically effective.

Also, heart patients at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust receive digitised remote monitoring. 

Digital health platform Altibbi supports Egyptian blood plasma project Altibbi has partnered with Egypt’s Ministry of Health and Population to work on a blood plasma project.

Also, Israeli startup Well-Beat teams with UST to launch digital patient engagement solution.

As more competitors enter an already oversupplied telehealth market, gaining consumer loyalty will be even harder, especially when competing against brands like Walmart and Amazon.

Also: Vocal biomarker company Kintsugi raises $20 million, VR startup XRHealth scoops up $10 million and Gesund.ai emerges from stealth with $2 million.

Also, Northern Ireland partners with Sectra to digitise pathology. 

Germany’s Bayer has launched Saudi Arabia’s first “digital hub” to improve management of pulmonary hypertension (PH), it has announced.

Healthy.io, a healthtech venture that already has offices in Israel, the UK, and the US, is expanding operations across MENA via a new partnership with the UAE’s Seed Group.