With its new “Mind by Maple” service, the digital health-care company said it’s addressing an exploding need for mental health care, particularly where workplace health benefits have minimal coverage if services aren’t provided by public health-care systems. (The Logic)
Talking point: Health-benefits companies have scooped up digital mental-health providers as customers have sought help with stresses aggravated by the COVID-19 pandemic. CEO Dr. Brett Belchetz said weeks ago that Maple wants to be an all-in-one health service, specifically pointing to mental health care as being best delivered from the same family of providers as other care is. Earlier this year, the company was reportedly working on going public, after raising $75 million from Loblaw subsidiary Shoppers Drug Mart, but Belchetz told BetaKit in July that market conditions weren’t quite right in the end.