Koa Health

Koa Health is a digital mental health company, spun out of Telefónica, that sells to employers, health plans, health systems and providers. People reach it through the Koa Care 360 app (previously Koa Foundations), which you sign into with an email your employer or provider has registered; it is free to you and open to employees and their dependents aged 18 and over. The app offers short activities drawn from cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness and positive psychology, aimed at stress, sleep, anxiety and well-being. Koa also builds therapist-supported programs (for child anxiety, teen social anxiety, adult PTSD and social anxiety) and the Koa Mindset depression tool for clinics; it describes these as not reviewed or cleared by the FDA. A randomized trial of Koa Foundations in more than 1,000 NHS staff, published in the British Journal of Psychiatry in 2022, found small improvements in distress, well-being and insomnia over 8 weeks; Koa also reports a smaller COVID-era trial.