Behavioral Health Technology

Nevada HHS is using a $3.8 million grant to launch Virtual Crisis Care, a program providing law enforcement with 24/7 access to counselors when responding to mental health crisis calls, law enforcement news source Police1 reported July 7.

Arise, a mental healthcare company aiming to provide comprehensive virtual care for eating disorders, launched July 11 after raising over $4 million in a seed-funding round.

Behavioral health professionals are concerned that for-profit, corporate online behavioral healthcare companies don't adequately train their practitioners and have questionable prescription protocols, liabilities that one industry veteran called "a catastrophe waiting to happen," Kaiser Health News reported July 8.

Noninvasive stimulation of the corneal surface in the eyes resulted in "remarkable" antidepressant-like effects and also reduced stress hormones in an animal model of depression, a study published May 27 in Brain Stimulation and June 25 in Annals of the…

The FDA designated digital therapeutics company OxfordVR's GameChange virtual reality mental health platform a breakthrough device.

Headspace, a popular meditation and mindfulness mobile app, announced its new Leadership Workshop Series, a three-branch program designed to coach leaders on best practices to support mental health in the workplace.

Instagram's to-be-released features will send a notification to teens spending significant amounts of time on the platform to make users more mindful of their time spent on social media, TechCrunch reported June 14.

Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta Platforms was hit with eight new lawsuits accusing the company of exploiting children and young adults for profit, Fox Business reported June 11.

Tech startup Kintsugi is attempting to use technology to measure the likelihood of depression by listening to a patient's voice, TechCrunch reported May 31.

Researchers at the University of Indiana School of Medicine in Indianapolis have created a blood test capable of identifying depression and bipolar disorder in patients after 15 years of research and study, local news source WTHR reported May 24.