Through a new partnership, Talkiatry patients who need more intensive care will be able to step up to treatment with Charlie Health. Then Charlie Health patients who no longer require intensive care can step down to Talkiatry to receive ongoing psychiatric care.
Shifting the healthcare system to an upstream approach will take a lot of work, but young people desperately need it, and the healthcare system direly needs it as well.
The future looks bright for the integrated specialty pharmacy model – for health systems, providers, and most importantly, for patients.
In a recent call for action, leading medical bodies agree that telehealth is integral to providing accessible and equitable mental health care for children.
If you could only do one thing to improve the health of children in the U.S., it would have to be in the behavioral health sphere, Nemours Children's Health CEO Lawrence Moss declared at HLTH. The state of youth mental health has reached a crisis point in the U.S., and Moss' health system is working hard to address this. Some of its efforts include embedding behavioral health into primary care and deploying behavioral health workers in schools.
Cartwheel, a startup that partners with school districts to provide virtual mental health services, raised $20 million in Series A funds. The company is working with about 50 school districts and charter school networks across Massachusetts, Illinois, New York, Rhode Island and Connecticut.
A study on BeMe Health, a behavioral health platform for teens, found that users engaged with the platform eight times on average over a month. The study was done in collaboration with Stanford University.
As technology advances, AI-powered tools will increasingly reduce the administrative burdens on healthcare providers.
Daybreak Health — a startup that partners with school districts to provide children with virtual mental health services — recently closed a $13 million Series B funding round. The company has partnered with more than 60 public school districts since it began providing care in 2019.
Spring Health's Family Care solution now serves kids of all ages and their parents. It connects each family with a care navigator and offers a dashboard that allows parents and caregivers to track their child's care.
The best approach to addressing this shortage of behavioral health professionals is more widespread adoption of virtual mental healthcare, a method of care delivery that is particularly appealing to college students.
Each year, nonprofit ECRI creates a list of the industry’s top ten patient safety concerns. This year, the pediatric mental health crisis topped the list, above other important issues like violence against healthcare staff and clinicians being expected to work outside their scope of practice.
The progress in artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping patient care, across various dimensions, from facilitating faster discharge to curating treatment plans and suggesting lifestyle changes.
UNC Health has partnered with the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services to open a new inpatient psychiatric hospital for children and adolescents. The partners came together because action is desperately needed to increase access to youth mental health services — research has found a significant link between the country’s shortage of mental health professionals and its rise in youth suicides.
Fort Health, a new startup built at Redesign Health, recently launched as a provider of mental healthcare services for children. The company has developed a telehealth-based mental health clinic that partners with pediatricians for referrals and health plans for coverage.
Suicide-related diagnoses in children and adolescents increased 14% since before the pandemic, a new Evernorth analysis shows. Female and Asian/Pacific Islander youth are especially struggling.
In order to provide quality pediatric care, children’s hospitals need more government support, Children’s Hospital Association CEO Mark Wietecha argued in a recent letter to Congress. He recommended Congress enact 12-month continuous eligibility for children covered by Medicaid or CHIP, allocate more money to pediatric physician training, and enhance Medicaid's low reimbursement rates for pediatric care.
Mental health-related emergency department visits and inpatient hospital admissions have been rising among U.S. children from 2016-21, according to new research. The report unveiled significant mental health utilization disparities between children covered by Medicaid and commercial insurance plans.