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.
For every life lost, the ripple effects continue outward, often creating distinct suicide clusters, which account for as many as 5% of all suicides. Breaking this cycle is essential to preventing thousands of tragedies each year.
Across the nation, state-based health insurance exchanges are searching for ways to better serve their communities while making enrollment easier, more personal, and more accessible for everyone.
It’s about interpreting the full range of factors, from biology to life circumstances, that can push someone to the edge.
Research shows that an average of 17.5 veterans die by suicide each day. At ViVE 2024, Shereef Elnahal, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ under secretary for health, declared that even one veteran dying by suicide is too many — and promised that the VA is pursuing partnerships aimed at addressing this harrowing problem.
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.
Rates of anxiety, depression and suicidal ideation are high among the nation's youth, particularly girls and young women. Mental health app Most Days is combatting this crisis by providing users with healthy routines to follow, developed by mental health professionals with clinical expertise.
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Preventia and LifeOmic partnered to create the free LIFE Extend app to serve mental health needs of Butler University students. It not only connects them to online therapists, but also helps students track their sleep, exercise, nutrition, and mindfulness.
It may seem intuitive to avoid telehealth or remote care to avoid increased liability and malpractice exposure. But remote behavioral health assessment tools, real-time data-driven insights, and adaptive treatment plans are actually the things that protect clinicians from civil liability in instances of patient suicide.
The Veterans Health Administration and health technology company Ontrak will conduct a three-year study examining a new intervention to improve care for veterans at high risk for suicide after they have been discharged from psychiatric hospitals.
Digital health for chronic illness is no longer a technology problem – it’s an implementation problem.
In a recent interview, Esperion president and CEO, Sheldon Koenig talks about the reality of statin intolerance and his company’s expansion into new diseases
Suicide rates in San Francisco are down by more than half ever since Bernard Mayes created the first suicide hotline in the city. “Thinking of ending it all? Call Bruce, PR1-0450, San Francisco Suicide Prevention.” That’s what the advertisement read, displayed on city buses in 1961 (Bruce being his pseudonym). According to close friend Matthew A. […]
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Baltimore-based Cerecor has a fast-tracked, fast-acting drug called CER-301 that treats those with severe major depressive disorder and suicidal tendencies. And it works a little like ketamine, the anesthetic-turned-illicit party drug-turned-psychiatric therapy du jour. The company just raised a $16 million tranche in a $32 million Series B round to fund ongoing Phase 2 trials for the medication. It also plans to use […]