Behavioral Health Technology

The Drug Enforcement Administration has submitted a final rule on telehealth prescribing of controlled substances to the White House for regulatory review. The DEA filed the rule Aug. 25 and listed it as “economically significant,” an Office of Management and…

The Pennsylvania Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs (DDAP) said nearly 146,000 Pennsylvania residents visited its online Treatment Atlas since Gov. Josh Shapiro took office.  The tool is designed to help individuals compare substance use disorder treatment programs and connect…

Hospitals and health systems are increasingly turning to telehealth to expand behavioral healthcare services as they contend with workforce shortages, rising demand and barriers to care.  During a July 14 panel at the American Hospital Association Leadership Summit in Denver,…

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…