The limitations of general-purpose AI in an emotional support context aren't what it says. They're about what it can't detect, including the markers of acute distress that a purpose-built system is specifically architected to recognize.
Sixty million rural Americans aren’t asking for another strategic framework. They’re asking for care — accessible, affordable, and delivered with dignity.
By reducing administrative burden and redesigning workflows around human needs, it creates space for what matters most: connection between clinicians and patients.
Reducing unnecessary utilization, expanding timely access to care and easing workforce burdens can help providers and health plans deliver improved healthcare for complex patient populations in the year ahead.
The promise of current and future technologies is encouraging – and it further underscores the importance of building the right support systems to help patients navigate the system and access the appropriate care at the right time and place.
Certified clinicians and therapists have specific ethical foundations and analytic responsibilities to uphold that might not apply to all members of the healthcare field.
NeuroFlow acquired Owl, a provider of measurement-based behavioral health care. These types of consolidations will drive the future of behavioral health care, according to NeuroFlow CEO Chris Molaro.
Enterprise EHR boosts scalability, interoperability, and governance for large healthcare systems.
In a recent call for action, leading medical bodies agree that telehealth is integral to providing accessible and equitable mental health care for children.
Mass General Brigham launched a program this month in collaboration with behavioral health medical group Concert Health. Under the program, more than 400 Mass General primary care providers can refer their patients to Concert. The health system's goal is to increase patients’ access to diagnoses and treatment for mild to moderate behavioral health issues — particularly for Medicaid patients, who are the most underserved.
For the gridlock in mental healthcare to be resolved, 100% of mental healthcare providers must practice measurement-based care, utilizing validated rating scales to monitor and measure longitudinal outcomes for every patient. And payers then must offer reimbursement that appropriately rewards providers for delivering high-quality, effective care, and incentivize proactive mental health management.
Let’s explore the top 5 steps to promote well-being and mental health while breaking the stigma from your society.
Zelis highlights how employers, payers, and consumers are integrating digital tools to manage healthcare costs.
Fixing the mental health crisis is a long journey, but the first step is addressing the lack of resources and affordable access available to BIPOC and underserved communities, as well as the long-term implications that lack of services have on those patients.
In the next 12-18 months, healthcare providers — especially rural providers — have an opportunity to lay the foundation that will stem the volume of patients with mental health issues from going to the emergency room.
As we collectively address this rising tide of behavioral health needs, we will need more payment reform, more innovation, and continued migration to more prospective payment models and treatment approaches that bring all stakeholders together to care for patients in a holistic manner.
Making predictions in unpredictable times can be dangerous. As long-held certainties – even ones as basic as person-to-person contact – have proven unreliable, perhaps we can only really trust the trends that bring us the flexibility to deal with the unexpected. Healthcare is the perfect bellwether. The sector has borne – and continues to bear […]
It’s time to reject reliance on the availability of human therapists and explore digitally driven, personalized care, so that each person receives exactly what they need when they need it, preserving our precious pool of trained human therapists for those that need them most.