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- United We Care, a global deep-tech mental health company, has partnered with Mason County, Washington, to successfully launch a digital mental health pilot program in one of the nation's mental health care deserts. The initiative provides residents with 24/7 confidential access to mental health and substance use support.
- The program has shown promising early results: 50% of users booked a session with a licensed mental health provider, 72.5% completed
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Charlie Health Expands Virtual Behavioral Healthcare to Ages 8-64
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- Charlie Health, a provider of virtual high-acuity behavioral healthcare, has announced a major expansion of its services to include individuals ages 8 to 64. With this change, Charlie Health is directly addressing critical care gaps for younger children and midlife adults, reinforcing its position as the only provider to offer this level of care to such a broad age range at scale.
- Access to high-acuity behavioral healthcare is more critical than ever,
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Array Behavioral Care Launches Care Pathways to Standardize Virtual Mental Health Treatment
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- Array Behavioral Care, a virtual behavioral health provider, has introduced its proprietary Care Pathways, a structured framework designed to ensure patients receive timely, clinically appropriate, and tailored treatment.
- The new model is intended to bring consistency, accountability, and personalization to a field that has long struggled with variability in care delivery. Care Pathways also enables measurement-based care across Array’s virtual
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Talkspace and Express Access Partner to Optimize Mental Health Referrals
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- Talkspace, a virtual behavioral health provider, and Express Access, a referral platform funded by the National Institutes of Health, have announced a new partnership to reshape how Americans access mental healthcare.
- Talkspace is the first national digital provider to adopt the Express Access TOP Match™ system at scale. This integration will allow for scientific provider matching and real-time patient progress tracking to be embedded directly into its care
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Pager Health Launches AI Agent to Simplify Behavioral Health Navigation
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- Pager Health has launched its AI-powered Behavioral Health Agent, a new AI navigation solution designed to change how health plan members find and access behavioral health (BH) support.
- The platform serves over 26 million members across the U.S. and Latin America.
Intelligent, Needs-Based Navigation
Health plans often have strong behavioral health offerings, but these resources are typically disconnected, leaving members to navigate a complex
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JotPsych Raises $5M to Build First Fully Agentic EHR for Behavioral Health
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- JotPsych, creator of the leading AI-powered scribe for behavioral health, today announced it has raised $5M in seed funding led by Base10 Partners.
- The investment positions JotPsych to rapidly transform from a best-in-class AI scribe into the first fully agentic Electronic Health Record (EHR), aiming to fundamentally eliminate administrative tasks for behavioral health clinicians.
From AI Scribe to Agentic EHR: Accelerating Transformation
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Breaking the Silence: Using AI to Empower Men to Seek Help for Mental Health
In a world where strength is often measured by stoicism, millions of men are suffering in silence. The statistics around male suicide paint a sobering picture: men die by suicide at nearly four times the rate of women, making it one of the leading causes of death among men — particularly those in their middle years.
Despite this alarming reality, less than half of men experiencing depression, anxiety, or other mental health conditions will ever seek professional help. The
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Slingshot AI Launches Ash: The First AI Designed for Therapy
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- Slingshot AI announced the public launch of Ash, the first AI designed for therapy, alongside an extension of its Series A funding round. Co-led by Radical Ventures and Forerunner Ventures, this brings the total capital raised to $93M, with previous investors a16z, Felicis, and Menlo also participating.
- After 18 months of development and testing with 50,000 beta users, Ash is now available as a free iOS and Android app, offering deeply personalized mental
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evolvedMD Secures $34M to Expand Integrated Behavioral Health Care Nationwide
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- evolvedMD, a Collaborative Care Management (CoCM) provider, announced the close of its $34M Series B investment round, led by Sustainable Investing at Goldman Sachs Alternatives. Existing investors Conductive Ventures, FCA Venture Partners, Healthworx Ventures, Tectonic Ventures, and Waterline Ventures also participated in the round.
- The funding will be used to accelerate evolvedMD's mission to increase behavioral health care availability and expand
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Talkiatry Launches New Couples Therapy Program, Expanding Access
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- Talkiatry, a provider of high-quality, in-network psychiatry and therapy services announced the launch of its Couples Therapy program. The new offering marks Talkiatry's continued commitment to expanding access to high-quality care and evolving its services to best meet the clinical needs of patients.
- The Couples Therapy program follows the recent launches of its child & adolescent psychiatry (CAP) and geriatric services, and the expansion of its
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