Digital mental health company Headspace and employer health tech company Virgin Pulse have announced an extended partnership in which Virgin’s members will have full access to Headspace within its AI-enabled health and wellbeing platform.Headspace…
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Pediatric virtual behavioral health company Brightline announced a second round of layoffs in less than a year, again affecting 20% of its workforce.The California-based company let go of 20% of its workforce in November,…
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By Mark Melchionna
May 03, 2023 – Published in BMC Psychiatry, a new study indicates that telehealth interventions evaluated in randomized controlled trials (RCTs) can help treat common maternal mental health, but researchers stated there is…
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GrayMatters Health, a medtech company based in Israel, has developed Prism for PTSD, a self-neuromodulation therapy. The company has identified what they describe as brain-mechanism-specific biomarkers for certain mental disorders. These involve combining fMRI…
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Columbia University has opened the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Center for Precision Psychiatry & Mental Health to utilize precision medicine in the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of mental illnesses. Funded by a $75m grant…
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The unprecedented expansion of telehealth and mental health care during the pandemic was a monumental shift for behavioral health care in more ways than one.
The flexibilities for behavioral health visits that resulted from the…
After experiencing a home invasion in 2016, Robert Krayn, co-founder and CEO of Talkiatry, found himself in need of psychiatric care. But even in a metropolis like New York City, where he lived, he…
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By Mark Melchionna March 31, 2023 – Published in JAMA Psychiatry, a recent study found that Medicare beneficiaries who engaged in opioid use disorder (OUD)-related care through telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic experienced a lower…
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In todays fast-paced world, it is easy to miss out on important information, especially if you are trying to keep up with a lot of different sources. That is where the daily digest comes in – it is a tool that compiles all the posts created on the previous day, providing you with a convenient summary of everything that happened so you can stay informed, educated, and engaged with the Digital Health world around you.
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Receiving telehealth services for opioid use disorder during the COVID-19 pandemic was associated with reduced odds for fatal overdose among Medicare beneficiaries, according to a study published in JAMA Psychiatry. Researchers from the Centers for…
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