Mental health technology startup Opeeka announced this week that it is entering into a partnership with The Centre for Outcomes of Care, a UK-based charity founded to improve children’s social care outcomes.
A report from the ECRI, a nonprofit organization dedicated to healthcare quality and safety, crafted in partnership with the Electronic Health Record Association, recommends five steps healthcare organizations should take to integrate behavioral health into primary care in electronic health record systems.
Too many EHRs hold data hostage inside proprietary software systems that reject the connectedness that should be a benefit to individual patients and broader communities alike.
Disruptive technology in mental health provides an opportunity to find breakthrough solutions that improve mental health and well-being outcomes on a greater scale than ever before.
The American Rescue Plan provides $1.9 trillion in funding to address the ongoing health and economic effects of the pandemic. This includes provisions to make health insurance more affordable by temporarily expanding and increasing Marketplace subsidies and fiscal incentives to encourage states that have not adopted the Medicaid expansion to do so.
Today, choosing to make healthy choices for minimizing risk of virus infection comes at a cost to our mental health, in both the short and the long term.
Government agencies, like the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the National Institute of Mental Health, continue to double down, sinking enormous sums of taxpayer money into biological research aimed at someday finding a neural signature or “blood test” for psychiatric diagnoses that could be, maybe, one day in the future, useful — all while people are in crisis now.
Improving the coordination of health care and other services is essential to good health and the economic mobility for individuals and communities. Many strategies are needed to address poor coordination and collaboration. Solving at least part of the wrong pockets problem at the local level through federal financing assistance for integrated data system.
Enforcement of CMS’ updated Interoperability and Patient Access requirements starts in July. Here’s what healthcare organizations need to know.
With a therapy app, more blatantly than in most health-care transactions, the patient is a customer, and the customer is always right. But this assumes patients know what they want and need and that getting it will make them feel better. These are not expectations most therapists would necessarily share — nor are they ones therapy apps are reliably prepared to fulfill.
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