What You Should Know: - Eleos Health has announced a $20 million Series A round, co-led by F-Prime Capital and Eight Roads Ventures, bringing their total raise to $28 million. - Eleos Health is a behavioral health application for voice AI, operating ambiently in the background of mental health clinician-patient conversations. It’s in production use with 20+ care providers and health plans, with a goal of unlocking up to 30% more mental health care provider capacity as the U.S.
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SonderMind Raises $150M to Expand Tech-Enabled Behavioral Health Platform
What You Should Know: - SonderMind Inc., a Denver, CO-based provider in improving mental health clinical outcomes and making behavioral health more accessible to all Americans, today announced it has raised $150M in Series C financing co-led by new investors Drive Capital and Premji Invest, with participation from General Catalyst, Partners Group, Smash Ventures, Kickstart, and F-Prime Capital. - For mental health providers, SonderMind enables clinicians to
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NeuroFlow Secures $20M for Tech-Enabled Behavioral Health Integration Platform
What You Should Know: - NeuroFlow raises $20M to expand its technology-enabled behavioral health integration platform, led by Magellan Health. - NeuroFlow’s suite of HIPAA-compliant, cloud-based tools simplify remote patient monitoring, enable risk stratification, and facilitate collaborative care. With NeuroFlow, health care organizations can finally bridge the gap between mental and physical health in order to improve outcomes and reduce the cost of care. NeuroFlow, a
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Equality Health Launches Social Determinants Program to Tackle Health Disparities
What You Should Know: - Equality Health launches Social and Cultural Risk Assessment (SCRA™) program to address social determinants of health (SDoH) - With Equality Health’s SCRA program, social determinants act as any other quality metric, with a far less burdensome reporting process. Equality Health, a whole-health delivery system, has pioneered a comprehensive cultural care program that enables providers to identify and
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Brightline Raises $20M for Virtual Pediatric Behavioral Health Platform
What You Should Know: - Brightline raises $20 million to bring its virtual behavioral healthcare platform to kids and families across California and beyond. - Brightline delivers integrated care through innovative technology, virtual behavioral health services, and a collaborative care team focused on supporting children across developmental stages and their families. Brightline, a Palo Alto, CA-based provider of technology-enabled pediatric behavioral healthcare, announced it has
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Ginger Lands $50M to Expand On-Demand Mental Health Support Platform
What You Should Know: - Ginger announces $50 Million in Series D funding to expand access to its on-demand mental healthcare system led by Advance Venture Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners; joined by Cigna Ventures and existing investors. - Company has more than tripled revenue over the past year, now brings access to on-demand mental healthcare to millions around the world through 200+ employer clients and leading health plans. Ginger, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of
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Virtual Behavioral Health Could Reduce Costs, Improve Patient Outcomes, Report Finds
What You Should Know: - A new Accenture report called “Breakthrough Behavioral Health Access: Think Virtual” finds that the use of virtual behavioral health could expand care for more than 53 million Americans facing these conditions. - Demand for behavioral health specialists significantly outweighs current availability; in addition to severe wait times of 25 days for first clinical appointments, we are projected to have a shortage of 250,000 behavioral health and mental health
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FCC Surpasses $100M in Approved COVID-19 Telehealth Program Applications
What You Should Know: - FCC’s COVID-19 Telehealth Program, which was authorized by the CARES Act, has approved funding for 305 healthcare providers in 42 states plus Washington, D.C. for a total of $105M in funding. The Federal Communications Commission’s Wireline Competition Bureau today approved an additional 67 funding applications for the COVID-19 Telehealth Program. Healthcare providers in both urban and rural areas of the country will use this $16.87M in funding to
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Social Distancing: Addiction Recovery Programs Go Virtual for COVID-19
We have been following the social distancing guidelines for two weeks now with more weeks to go. One population that truly needs and is literally prescribed social interaction is that of Substance Use Disorder (SUD). In fact, the 12 step (recovery approach) community, relies on being social wherein attending group meetings to share experience, strength, and hope is a part of the proven philosophy. Turns out, social distancing while helpful with the COVID-19 crisis is creating another one;
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Ginger Acquires Technology Assets of Mental Health App LiveBetter
What You Need to Know: - Ginger has acquired the technology assets of LiveBetter, a company that brings free mental health and well-being support to anyone through a highly engaging, conversational app. - LiveBetter reaches over 10,000 users and continues to reach more individuals every day - young adults, the unemployed, new parents, and the homeless. Ginger, on-demand access to behavioral health coaching, video therapy, video psychiatry, and self-guided content has acquired the
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