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The Cambridge-based company is one of three other digital health companies to be selected for the Future Fifty programme

Ieso Digital Health has been selected to join the prestigious Future Fifty programme this year, alongside just three other healthtech and biology companies. 

Future Fifty is run by Tech Nation - a Government-backed network that supports tech innovation in the UK. The companies selected for the Future Fifty programme represent some of the most exciting growth stage tech businesses, and includes Transferwise, Made, Zopa and Funding Circle amongst it’s alumni.  

The programme gives fast-growing tech companies immediate access to a valuable peer network; expert-led classes and workshops designed to take their businesses to the next level. The 24 new companies selected for this year’s cohort will join last year’s experienced participants. 

This accolade is recognition of Ieso’s continued success and growth in the field of digital health. Ieso provides live, one-to-one, cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) online on behalf of the NHS and some of America’s biggest healthcare providers. It’s mission is to make high-quality cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) accessible, accountable and affordable for the first time.  

Earlier this year, Ieso announced it has incorporated AI into it’s product - The Clinical Decision Support tool using AI to assist therapists in delivering the best outcomes for patients. It is the first time that AI has been deployed in this way on an international scale, and gives clinicians the best chance of making an accurate, evidence-based diagnosis, and enables the delivery of more effective treatment. 

Ieso was also named Business of the Year at the Cambridge Business Weekly awards, that took place at Queens’ College, Cambridge last week.  

Dr Nigel Pitchford, CEO at Ieso says: “To be included in this year’s Future Fifty cohort alongside some of the best companies in UK tech is recognition - for everyone at Ieso - of what we’ve achieved to date. I’m immensely proud of the team, and the business that we’ve built together.

We’re excited for what the year ahead will bring and are hugely grateful to those that selected Ieso for the programme.” 

About Ieso Digital Health: 

Ieso is a leading provider of online mental healthcare and is redefining the way that mental health care is delivered by making high-quality cognitive behavioural therapy 
(CBT) accessible, accountable and affordable for the first time.  

Ieso is helping to create a modern mental health infrastructure with its transformative, digitally-enabled mental health care which is increasing access to high-quality care for patients by meeting them where they’re at; online, on their mobile, PC or tablet. Ieso has delivered more almost 180,000 therapy hours through its network of 500+ BABCP accredited therapists to date. 

Founded by psychologists, Ieso’s method has been clinically validated in a trial, published in The Lancet in 2009 and in the British Journal of Psychiatry in 2018.  
Online CBT mirrors face-to-face therapy and involves real-time, personalised communication between a BABCP accredited therapist and a patient in therapy sessions. Ieso is available in the UK through the NHS Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme. 

Ieso is a multi-award-winning business and one of UK’s fastest-growing technology companies, as lauded in the Deloitte Fast 50 awards 2018 and 2017. Ieso was also recognised as one of the Sunday Times Disruptors to Watch. The company was also awarded the accolade of 2017 Digital Innovation of the Year. 

Ieso launched in the US in 2017, and is accelerating growth there, with the service now being available on a global level through some of America’s biggest healthcare providers.