Living through a pandemic is stressful and anxiety-inducing. Stay-at-home measures are compounding this stress, resulting in social isolation and unprecedented economic hardship, including mass layoffs and loss of health coverage. Fully understanding the impact of these pernicious trends on overall mental health will take time. However, precedents like the Great Recession suggest that these trends are likely to worsen the conditions driving suicide and substance-related deaths, the “deaths of
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Mental Health
Why Hasn’t A More Holistic Approach to Patient Care Become The Norm?
When food production technology made it possible, wheat flour processors started to eliminate the tough exterior (bran) and nutrient-rich core (germ) of the kernel to get at the large, starchy part (the endosperm) only. The bread produced from this process is white and fluffy, and it makes great PB&Js and takes forever to grow mold, but it is almost totally lacking nutritional value.
Nutrition experts eventually pointed this out, of course, after which commercial bakers tried fortifying
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Anthem Expands Relationship with doc.ai to Power Digital Health Offerings
What You Should Know:
- Anthem extends the use of doc.ai's platform and portfolio of privacy-first technologies and artificial intelligence software services to drive the personalization of Anthem’s digital assets and create improved value for users.
- doc.ai’s product offerings are deployed on its cloud-agnostic and zero-trust infrastructure that lets clients like Anthem launch products faster and at lower costs.
Anthem, today announced it is extending its partnership with doc.ai,
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U.S. Airforce Awards $1.5M Contract to NeuroFlow to Increase Mental Healthcare Access
What You Should Know:
- The U.S. Air Force has awarded NeuroFlow a $1.5M contract to leverage its digital integrated behavioral health solutions that will help counselors manage symptoms -- like trauma, depression, anxiety -- of Airmen remotely and in real-time. using journals and self-reported data insights.
- The technology will support Air Force Medical Service (AFMS) in an effort to digitally enhance and reinforce the mental health of service members. It will also involve the 'risk
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Ready Raises $54M to Become The Uber of On-Demand Healthcare Services
What You Should Know:
- Ready, a company described as the “Uber” of on-demand health
service, just raised $54 million in its Series C funding round.
- Ready’s on-demand care model is evolving the healthcare
industry with customer service and mobility, just like Uber did for ride
sharing and Postmates for food delivery.
Ready, an New Orleans,
LA-based on-demand healthcare service, today announced that it closed $54
million of new funding to finance the expansion of its operations and
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Canadian Telehealth Startup OnCall Health Lands $6M for Virtual Care Platform
What You Should Know:
- OnCall Health Raises $6M Series A to Enable Virtual
Care Programs for Healthcare Brands
- Funding will be used by OnCall Health to expand its
reach and build out its software that enables healthcare brands, systems, and
startups to launch and scale their telehealth operations.
- OnCall enables healthcare enterprises to rapidly launch
their own virtual care platform that is highly configurable to their brand and
workflow.
OnCall Health, a
Toronto, CA-based
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Lifespeak Lands $42M for Digital Mental Health and Wellness Platform
What You Should Know:
- Toronto-based digital mental health and wellness
platform, LifeSpeak raises $42M CAD in minority equity investment to accelerate
its global growth trajectory.
- The platform, offered remotely to employees and health plan members, covers topics such as preventative health, mental health (including depression, anxiety, addiction, isolation, suicide, etc.), marital and relationship advice, parenting, and eldercare.
LifeSpeak Inc., a Toronto, ON-based
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How the Simple Telehealth Visit Will Revolutionize Care Delivery and Disease Management
The impact of COVID-19 on the healthcare industry’s ability to innovate has been stunning. We have seen FDA emergency authorizations and relaxed regulatory guidelines enable the development of radical new ventilator ideas, accelerated timelines for vaccine development, and an extraordinary transition to telehealth services. Many of these actions were a response to the exposure of weak spots in our healthcare system, but even as those weaknesses have been shored up (in large part due to public
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FCC, HHS, and USDA Team Up for Rural Telehealth Initiative Task Force
What You Should Know:
- Agencies sign a memorandum of understanding to establish an interagency Rural Telehealth Initiative Task Force comprised of representatives from each agency to keep rural Americans connected to vital health services.
The Federal Communications Commission
(FCC), U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS), and U.S. Department of
Agriculture (USDA) today announced that they have signed a Memorandum
of Understanding to work together on the Rural Telehealth
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Catapult Health Launches VirtualCheckup to Deliver Clinical Preventative Care
What You Should Know:
- Catapult Health, today announced the release of VirtualCheckup to bring annual checkups to nearly any location – combining telehealth, clinic diagnostics, COVID-19, and depression screenings to address the health concerns of today – perfect for remote employees and partners, and covered by most commercial plans.
- Prior to each visit, participants will be mailed a
VirtualCheckup home kit that contains a blood pressure monitor, a
next-generation finger stick blood
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