Behavioral Health Technology

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. 

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: