How much should you trust BetterHelp, Talkspace, Cerebral and other mental health start-ups touted by celebrities?
When Pat Paulson’s son told her he was feeling anxious and depressed at college, Paulson went through her Blue Cross Blue Shield provider directory and started calling mental health therapists. No providers in the Wisconsin city where her son’s university is located had openings. So she bought a monthly subscription to BetterHelp, a Mountain View, California, company that links people to therapists online.
Her son felt uncomfortable with his first BetterHelp therapist. After waiting several weeks, he saw a second therapist, whom he liked. But she wasn’t available the following week.
Despite the switch and the wait, P...
Source: SharpBrains - July 11, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Kaiser Health News Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Technology & Innovation 8 billion minds American-Psychological-Association BetterHelp cerebral medication mental health start-ups mental healthcare talk-therapy Talkspace teletherapy Source Type: blogs
Digital mental health intervention by the World Health Organization (WHO) found to lower anxiety and depression, with improvements maintained at 3 ‑month follow-up
Conclusions: In this study, we found that a guided, digital intervention was effective in reducing depression in displaced people in Lebanon. The guided WHO Step-by-Step intervention we examined should be made available to communities of displaced people that have digital access.
The Study in Context:
Headspace Health acquires AI-driven digital mental health start-up Sayana
The landscape of digital mental health apps: huge unmet needs, quality concerns, app stores asked to ensure transparency
The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) shares discussion paper to help empower 8 billion minds via the ethical adoption of digital...
Source: SharpBrains - July 5, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Technology & Innovation anxiety depression digital mental health gratitude exercise mental-disorders positive self-talk post-traumatic stress stress-management well-being Source Type: blogs
Friday Feature: STOP Award to Transform Education
Colleen HroncichSustainable, Transformational, Outstanding, and Permissionless. These are the core principles underlying a new initiative —the STOP Award—created to honor the work of educators in the wake of COVID-19 and expand access to exciting educational opportunities.Last August, education advocate and philanthropist Janine Yass announced the creation of the STOP Award, featuring the $1 million Yass Prize. Describing her inspiration, Janine says, “When we started this award, as we watched the tragic impact of Covid on education across this country, our gloom turned to joy as we saw how many organizations we...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 24, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Colleen Hroncich Source Type: blogs
OTC Birth Control Pills –Just What The Doctor Ordered
Jeffrey A. SingerLast week, at its annual meeting, the American Medical Associationvoted to join the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the American Academy of Family Physicians in calling on the Food and Drug Administration to make birth control pills available over the counter. As I have writtenhere, ACOG and AAFP have been calling for making hormonal contraception available over the counter for decades. While late to the game, the AMA ’s endorsement of OTC birth control is a welcome development.Two drug companies,HRA Pharma andCadence Health have been workingsince 2016 to develop new birth control pi...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 21, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey A. Singer Source Type: blogs
How long will it take to address clinical inertia in T2DM? [PODCAST]
This article is sponsored by the Academy for Continued Healthcare Learning. Visit the CME activity and Clinical Inertia Assessment Tool. It ’s been over twenty years since clinical inertia was coined a term, and since that time, experts have debated on how to define it, and where and when it exists across the treatment paradigm. EveryRead more …How long will it take to address clinical inertia in T2DM? [PODCAST] originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 14, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/post-author/the-podcast-by-kevinmd" rel="tag" data-wpel-link="internal" > The Podcast by KevinMD < /a > < /span > Tags: Podcast Sponsored Diabetes Endocrinology Source Type: blogs
Say it again:
This study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds that, in the context of the Covid 19 pandemic, " a single-payer universal healthcare system would have saved 212,000 lives in 2020 alone. We also calculated that US$105.6 billion of medical expenses associated with COVID-19 hospitalization could have been averted by a Medicare for All system. " This is not exactly news. Health services researchers have been making these sorts of calculations for decades, for as long as I ' ve even been on the periphery of the business, and it always comes out the same. With a universal single payer system we can:I...
Source: Stayin' Alive - June 14, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Momentum Growing for Direct Primary Care
It is clear from attendees and speakers at the 2022 HINT Summit (#HINTSummit) that there is growing enthusiasm and momentum for Direct Primary Care in the US. I have honestly never been to a healthcare conference where physicians were this excited about anything. Direct Primary Care The American Academy of Family Physicians defines Direct Primary […] (Source: EMR and HIPAA)
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 9, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: Administration Ambulatory Healthcare IT #HINTSummit Bibb Beale Direct Primary Care DPC Frontier Direct Care Hint Health Source Type: blogs
The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
June 09, 2022 Edition-----The Russian war on Ukraine is now well over 100 days old. The destruction and deaths are just awful and the world is being seriously re-shaped. Where this ends is unknowable but unlikely to be good.In the US we are seeing almost daily mass shootings and no-one seems to know what to do. Just pathetic.In the UK the hangover is slowly lifting after the 4 day royal celebration.In OZ we are having an energy crisis which we hope we will find solutions for soon!-----Major Issues.------https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/economics/australias-labor-government-faces-a-whole-new-economic-ball-game/news...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - June 9, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Eko DUO Digital ECG + Stethoscope: Exclusive Interview and Review
In the latest advancements of AI and med tech, the Eko DUO stands out as a smart and reliable product with FDA-cleared artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms being used to detect leading indicators of heart disease. More significantly, this is a smart stethoscope that boasts point-of-care ECG capabilities to detect signs of heart disease such as murmurs and arrhythmias, making it truly unique in its class and one of the first of its kind being used in the clinic.
The DUO is similar to Eko’s 3M Littmann CORE Digital Stethoscope in that it features enhanced acoustics that enable clinicians to amplify sounds to bett...
Source: Medgadget - June 8, 2022 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Alice Ferng Tags: Cardiology Exclusive Medicine Pediatrics Telemedicine Eko_Health stethoscope Source Type: blogs
AI-enabled chatbot Wysa receives FDA Breakthrough Device designation for patients with chronic pain, depression and anxiety
AI Behavior Health Chatbot App Fast-Tracked by FDA (Psychology Today):
Recently the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted breakthrough device designation to Wysa’s AI-based digital mental health conversational agent that delivers cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) via a smartphone to adults suffering from depression, anxiety, and chronic musculoskeletal pain…
Wysa’s admittance to the FDA Breakthrough Devices Program signifies a giant leap forward for artificial intelligence in the mental health industry. According to the FDA, the designation was supported by a clinical trial that “found Wysa to be more ef...
Source: SharpBrains - June 6, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Technology & Innovation anxiety artificial intelligence CBT chronic musculoskeletal pain cognitive-behavioral-therapy depression digital mental health FDA Food and Drug Administration mental health industry sma Source Type: blogs
Road Trip!
I ' m heading to DC for the Academy Health Annual Research Meeting. Academy Health is the health services research association. I don ' t know why they don ' t call it Health Services Research Academy, or Academy of Health Services Research, but I ' m just a member,I ' ll be giving a talk about 42 CFR Part 2 and Health Information Exchange, which is probably gobbledygook to you, but I will explain in due course. There may be other interesting stuff that happens at the meeting which I will tell you about. Flying back Tuesday. I have lived in the capital for two separate stretches, and been to a billion conferences the...
Source: Stayin' Alive - June 5, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
20 years and counting. How long will it take to address clinical inertia in T2DM?
This article is sponsored by the Academy for Continued Healthcare Learning, an independently owned and operated full-service medical education company that has been developing certified healthcare education for nearly twenty years. It ’s been over twenty years since clinical inertia was coined a term, and since that time, experts have debated on how to define it,Read more …20 years and counting. How long will it take to address clinical inertia in T2DM? originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 1, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/post-author/lisa-keckich-and-nicolle-rochino" rel="tag" data-wpel-link="internal" > Lisa Keckich and Nicolle Rochino, PharmD < /a > < /span > Tags: Sponsored Diabetes Endocrinology Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - reports - 25th May 2022
Communique from the Academie Nationale de Medecine (French National Academy of Medicine) about lingual phrenotomy (frenotomy) in newborns and infants. This page in French, but there is a press release in English. Birthrights inquiry into racial justice in maternity care.All Party Parliamentary Group for Women in the Penal System have produced a report into women ' s health and wellbeing in prisons, which does discuss pregnancy and childbirth. Press release from the Howard League;APPG report itself (via the Howard League).Acknowledgements: Le Monde, for the first, Rotherham hospital library...
Source: Browsing - May 25, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
Sheldon Krimsky
, who supervised my master ' s thesis at Tufts, has died at age 80.His NYT obituary is here, if you haven ' t used up your free reads. His work is highly relevant to a discussion we ' ve been having here. Shelly was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and he was a critic of science. His life ' s work was to expose corruption in science, and warn of the negative effects of technology. Sometimes he went a bit overboard, in my view, particularly with respect to gene editing. He was much more alarmed by it than I think was really called for, but that ' s okay. We need to think about worst case scenarios. A...
Source: Stayin' Alive - May 6, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Funding for digital health start-ups, especially in mental health, fall substantially in Q1 ’22
Global digital health funding falls 36% with fewer megarounds, IPOs (Fierce Healthcare):
After two years of record-breaking investment in digital health, capital flow into the sector took a dive in the first quarter of 2022.
The global digital health market saw funding decrease 36% from the fourth quarter of 2021, totaling $10.4 billion, as investors reacted to supply chain woes, the Russian invasion of Ukraine and a volatile stock market, according to a new CB Insights report.
While all tech sectors received smaller funding totals than the previous quarter, digital health plunged much further than others did … investor ...
Source: SharpBrains - May 3, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Technology & Innovation cerebral digital health digital health market Mental Health Tech Talkspace Source Type: blogs
