Sidekick Health is already working with pharma heavyweights Pfizer and Bayer on gamified apps that can be paired with drug therapies to improve patient outcomes – and says it is poised to announce three more in the coming months.
The Iceland-based digital health company – which has just raised $55 million in second-round funding – has been working with Bayer on an app/medicine combination for patients with peripheral artery disease since 2019, and in the following year cut a deal with Pfizer to take a similar approach to five inflammatory disease.
Sidekick also works with health insurance company Anthem, providing digital-based care programmes for members dealing with COVID-19, Crohn’s disease, and other chronic conditions.
Dr Tryggvi Thorgeirsson, Sidekick’s chief executive, told pharmaphorum that one of the new partnerships will be a collaboration “to support patients with breast cancer, where we will augment pharmacotherapy and help patients manage side effects.”