Behavioral Health Technology

Headspace plans to launch a direct-to-consumer mental health coaching service. 

Telehealth-only behavioral providers are eligible for a new accreditation program from The Joint Commission. 

Primary and urgent care providers at HCA Healthcare can now refer patients to Talkiatry psychiatrists through HCA's EMR. 

Acadia Healthcare will partner with Uber Health to provide patients with transportation to Acadia's comprehensive treatment centers. 

The Biden administration is putting nearly $37 million toward grant programs to improve access to behavioral health services across the country. CMS is also expanding the pool of behavioral health providers covered under Medicaid, HHS said in a Feb. 26…

Patients can chat with an AI avatar designed to simulate a human therapist on a new application developed by Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai. 

Around 13% of mental health specialists have shifted their work fully online since 2019, a study published Jan. 26 in JAMA Health Forum found. 

Vita Health, a startup providing care management for suicide prevention, raised $22.5 million in series A funding. 

Cerebral, a behavioral telehealth company, will pay more than 16,000 consumers restitution for allegedly violating New York laws by making it difficult to cancel subscriptions to the platform. 

Around half of mental health practitioners surveyed by Wiley said they have used generative AI in some form in their practice in the past year.