Behavioral Health Technology

Wickenburg, Ariz.-based The Meadows launched Meadows Daily+, a digital companion for patients and clinicians across its outpatient centers, following a multi-site pilot that evaluated the platform’s use in partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient programs. The 2025 pilot included five programs,…

Not long ago, a patient in a rural emergency department served by Renton, Wash.-based Providence might have waited two days, sometimes up to a week, for a mental health professional to evaluate them. Today, that same patient is typically seen…

Across the country, behavioral health leaders are redrawing the blueprint for care — smoothing patient access, merging mental and physical health under one roof, and using AI to route patients before a crisis ever reaches the emergency room. Becker’s asked…

Akron (Ohio) Children’s has partnered with Sonar Mental Health to provide patients with access to 24/7 chat-based well-being support, combining trained well-being coaches with AI tools that support coach consistency, safety, quality and care coordination, according to a June 24…

Mental health conditions remained the leading telehealth diagnosis category across every U.S. region from January through March, accounting for 57.6% of telehealth diagnoses in the Midwest, 56.4% in the Northeast, 49.1% in the West and 48.3% in the South, according…

The behavioral health sector is under pressure from every direction: workforce shortages, surging patient demand, reimbursement headwinds and the persistent stigma that keeps patients from seeking care. But across the country, health system leaders are finding that technology — deployed…

The Food and Drug Administration granted de novo approval to Modius Spero, marking it the world’s first neuromodulation device authorized to treat symptoms associated with post-traumatic stress disorder.  The wearable device was developed by Neurovalens and uses low-level electrical stimulation…

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs selected Mynd Immersive — a digital therapeutics platform — alongside Meta, to help expand immersive virtual reality therapy services to 45 more VA medical centers nationwide.  The effort is tied to the VA’s Pain…

Albany, N.Y.-based Hixny, the healthcare information exchange of New York state, the New York State Office of Mental Health have integrated behavioral health data from the state’s Psychiatric Services and Clinical Knowledge Enhancement System into Hixny’s snapshot application, providing an…

For revenue cycle teams in behavioral health, eligibility issues rarely present as isolated tasks. A single denial can set off a chain of manual work: verifying coverage across payer portals, coordinating updates across multiple systems, and reaching out to members—all…