Behavioral Health Technology

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. 

New York City will pay Talkspace $26 million over three years to operate TeenSpace, the city's new virtual mental health platform for teenagers. 

New York City is launching TeenSpace, a free mental health platform for teenagers in the city. 

The global mental health app market is projected to grow to $6.5 billion by 2028, according to a recent market report from BCC Research.

Here are seven behavioral health technology updates that Becker's reported on since July 5:

Mental health software sales are projected to hit $8 billion by 2031, according to data from Astute Analytica. In 2022, the global market reached revenue of $2.8 billion. 

Digital therapeutics may be a powerful tool to help boost patients' mental health, according to an Aug. 1 article on the American Medical Association website.