Teletherapy Alone Will Not Solve The Mental Health Access Issue
New mental health treatment tools based on technology work, and outcomes are exceptional. Now health plans must expand coverage so more patients can access these new treatments.
New mental health treatment tools based on technology work, and outcomes are exceptional. Now health plans must expand coverage so more patients can access these new treatments.
Experts emphasized that getting digital mental health support to underserved youth requires community partnerships, culturally tailored approaches, peer outreach and equitable access.
In a landscape where complexity has long been the norm, the power of one lies not just in unification, but in intelligence and automation.
For healthcare facilities, AI-driven soft skill training is gaining traction in light of critical staffing shortages and the need for more emotionally intelligent personnel.
FamilyWell's financing was led by New Markets Venture Partners and included participation from .406 Ventures, GreyMatter Capital, The Alix Foundation, The Donna Fund and The Lee Foundation.
Cigna Healthcare has partnered with Headspace to offer over 7 million members access to Headspace’s digital mental health tools.
To meaningfully scale mental health care — and improve outcomes along the way — we must move beyond the rigid constraints of episodic care and toward a model that is continuous, intelligent, and adaptive to individual needs.
Mental health company Talkspace has purchased Wisdo Health, an AI-powered platform for social health and peer support.
We owe it to those who dedicate their lives to caring for others to ensure that they, too, have access to help when they need it most.
When the technology changes even slightly, the psychological impact can be detrimental to a person’s health and sometimes, even debilitating.
Alan Murray on improving access for medical transportation.
Array Behavioral Care introduced a new model called Care Pathways, which aims to make mental health treatment more consistent and personalized while also improving patient outcomes.
As AI chatbots become a surrogate for human connection amid a national mental health crisis, experts are worried about these tools’ lack of safeguards — with research showing the models can provide dangerous, sometimes fatal, advice. Regulators and providers alike are scrambling to catch up with a technology that evolves faster than humans are able to understand.
A new initiative from the Digital Medicine Society aims to replace outdated mental health questionnaires with a set of shared digital measures that track things like patients’ sleep, activity and speech. By relying on real-time, quantitative insights, the project seeks to set a data-driven standard for evaluating the effectiveness of mental health treatments.
If we gut school-based care, we’re not only closing doors, we’re also deepening the racial and economic inequities that already shape our mental health system. We can’t claim to care about equity in healthcare if we’re willing to strip care from the very places that reach the kids who need it most.