About one out of five Americans with serious illness struggled to access care during the pandemic, and rates were significantly higher among disadvantaged populations, a 2022 study found. Now, as mental health-related visits in emergency departments (EDs) continue to rise, healthcare professionals must consider: “How can we create better behavioral health supports for people in crisis?” It's a question that has significant implications for quality of care as well as cost. The High Cost of
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Real-World Study Uses AI to Identify Undiagnosed Dementia in Primary Care
What You Should Know: - Rising to meet the formidable challenge of the timely diagnosis of dementia, research scientists from Regenstrief Institute, IUPUI and the medical schools of Indiana University and the University of Miami are conducting the Digital Detection of Dementia study, a real-world evaluation of the use of an artificial intelligence (AI) tool they developed for early identification of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias in primary care, the setting where most adults
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Wraparound Programs – An Alternative Approach to Address the Children’s Mental Health Crisis
The mental health crisis impacting America’s children requires states, parents, guardians, and behavioral health professionals to rethink how we provide treatment. For many young people, high-fidelity wraparound programs are the answer. Even before the pandemic, mental health issues were a leading cause of disability for children. The pandemic only worsened the situation. In the fall of 2020, Challenge Success conducted a national study that found that only one-third of high school students
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ShareWell Launches Free Peer Support Training Program to Help Combat America’s Mental Health Crisis
What You Should Know: - ShareWell, the first peer support platform connecting people overcoming similar life challenges to find support, healing and connection, today announced the launch of its free digital peer support training program. - The 10-hour training program was created in partnership with two therapists, a counselor and an executive coach and is designed to educate peer support hosts on how to help others with mental health struggles, while also aiding in self-healing by
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How Community Health Investments Will Define The Future of Healthcare
Community health is more than how someone’s physical health needs are being met. It involves all the physical, social, and environmental factors — access to nutritious food, stable income and housing, education opportunities, and more. These social determinants of health, or SDoH, are interconnected and integral to the overall health of communities across the world — and healthcare systems are taking note. With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, it became clear one person’s health could
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PE Firms Rebrand Prison Healthcare Companies, But Care Issues Continue
What You Should Know: - A new report, “Private Equity Firms Rebrand Prison Healthcare Companies, But Care Issues Continue,” by the Private Equity Stakeholder Project (PESP) focuses on healthcare company Wellpath and the regulatory risks that the company continues to take in local jails and prisons. - Wellpath is owned by private equity firm H.I.G. Capital and is among the largest healthcare companies serving U.S. prisons and jails. Wellpath has had a litany of staffing and access to
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Headway Expands to California for In-Network Mental Healthcare
What You Should Know: - Headway, a tech-enabled company that has built the easiest way for people to get quality in-network mental health care, announced it is available in California. - Headway patients can attend a virtual or in-person appointment in as little as 48 hours, and on average patients attend their first appointment less than 6 days after online booking; this is compared to the national average of two to three weeks, if not months. Mental Health Crisis in
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Ellipsis Health & Ceras Health Integrate to Bring Human Voice as a Biomarker for Mental Health
What You Should Know: - Ellipsis Health and Ceras Health today announced a partnership that will integrate Ellipsis Health's breakthrough technology that uses the human voice as a biomarker for mental health and wellbeing into Ceras' clinical monitoring platform. - This integration will combine Ellipsis Health's AI and deep learning technology with Ceras Health's clinical monitoring and health data analytics platform, enabling real-time severity scores for anxiety and depression to improve
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Diagnostic Robotics Raises $45M for Medical-Grade AI Triage & Clinical Predictions Platform
What You Should Know: - Diagnostic Robotics has announced the closing of a $45M Series B funding round led by StageOne investors, with participation from Mayo Clinic, thus becoming a Mayo Clinic Platform portfolio company. Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, as well as other existing investors such as strategic angel investor Bradley Bloom, co-founder of Berkshire Partners, participated in this funding round as well. - The new funding will be used to accelerate product development,
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Why Mental Illness Is Not the Cause of Gun Violence
I guess there’s just no way to have a sacred cow without also keeping a goat. Understand, I’m not talking about a GOAT, as in Tom Brady or Michael Jordan. I mean a goat, i.e, something or someone that takes the blame for an event, failed policy, etc., perhaps more commonly called a scapegoat. The sacred cow, in this instance, is the Second Amendment, which has become so sacrosanct in the national foundational myth of an inspired Constitution that it no longer means a great deal more than
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