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Nicola Tessler, CEO, BeMe Health
Nikki Tessler is the CEO of BeMe Health. She is a psychologist who has built a relatively new company with a self service tool and coaching service for teens. It’s essentially trying to convert teens’ social media time to good use with support, affirmations, coaching and safety–and much more.. I interviewed Nikki and got a full demo over the holiday break. There’s a lot of information here about the teen mental health question (yes it’s bad!), about the company funding & strategy, and great understanding of the product…which is pretty unusual and growing fast!—Matthew Holt (Sou...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 9, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech THCB Spotlights BeMe Health Mental Health Nicola Tessler Teen mental health Source Type: blogs

Trend: Despite concerns, large US employers deploy apps, AI chatbots, other digital tools to boost workplace mental health
Employers Are Offering a New Worker Benefit: Wellness Chatbots (The Wall Street Journal): More workers feeling anxious, stressed or blue have a new place to go for mental-health help: a digital app. Chatbots that hold therapist-like conversations and wellness apps that deliver depression and other diagnoses or identify people at risk of self-harm are snowballing across employers’ healthcare benefits. “The demand for counselors is huge, but the supply of mental-health providers is shrinking,” said J. Marshall Dye, chief executive officer of PayrollPlans, a Dallas-based provider of benefits software used by small and m...
Source: SharpBrains - January 9, 2024 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Peak Performance Technology & Innovation CBT depression digital app digital therapeutic healthcare benefits Koa Health Mental-Health self-harm wellness chatbot Woebot worker benefit Source Type: blogs

Bridging the health care divide:  All our actions matter
Much has been written on the social divides laid bare and amplified by the COVID-19 pandemic. Thankfully, the more divisive punditry and polemics have receded along with the COVID-19 mandates. And yet, as professionals in health care who have worked in direct patient care and in support of our clinician colleagues, we still see a Read more… Bridging the health care divide: All our actions matter originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 8, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors:

25th Amendment Still Not the Right Response to a Mentally Ill Trump
By MIKE MAGEE On May 16, 2017 New York Times conservative columnist, Russ Douthat, wrote “The 25th Amendment Solution for Removing Trump.”  That column was the starting point for a Spring course I taught on the 25th Amendment at the President’s College in Hartford, CT. I will not summarize the entire course here, but would like to emphasize four points: The American public was adequately warned (now 7 years ago) of the risk that Trump represented to our nation and our democracy. Douthat’s piece triggered a journalistic debate which I summarize below with four slides drawn from my lectures. ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 8, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy 25th Amendment Mike Magee Trump Source Type: blogs

Addressing physician burnout differently [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! We have a conversation with Claudia Finkelstein, an internal medicine physician, as she reimagines the concept of physician burnout. Join us as Claudia introduces her alternative model for addressing burnout and discusses the multifaceted factors contributing to the well-being of health care professionals. Claudia Read more… Addressing physician burnout differently [PODCAST] originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 8, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Podcast Psychiatry Source Type: blogs

Leaders advise us to accept it as a job norm: violence and abuse in the health care workplace
Violence and assaults against health care workers are now reported at an all-time high. While health care workers comprise just 13% of the U.S. workforce, they experience 60% of all workplace assaults. Health care has been declared America’s most dangerous profession due to workplace violence. Health care and social service industries experience the highest rates Read more… Leaders advise us to accept it as a job norm: violence and abuse in the health care workplace originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 7, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Physician Emergency Medicine Source Type: blogs

It ’s time to evolve how we measure the success of EHRs to make us healthier
We’ve known for the last decade that electronic health records (EHRs) have a significant impact on physicians’ ability to deliver high-value care. It not only has a largely negative influence on their quality of life, which bleeds over into the entire health care landscape, but also impacts their ability to successfully adapt practices to evolving Read more… It’s time to evolve how we measure the success of EHRs to make us healthier originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 6, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Tech Health IT Source Type: blogs

Value Based Care – 2024 Health IT Predictions
As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions.  We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes.  In fact, we got so many that we had to narrow them down to just the best and most interesting.  Check out our community’s predictions below and be sure to add your own thoughts and/or places you disagree with these predictions in the comments and on social media. All of this year’s 2024 health IT predictions (updated as they’re shared): John and ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 5, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Administration Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Regulations Revenue Cycle Management 2024 Health IT Predictions 9amHealth Andreessen Horowitz Anthony Hudson Anton Kittleberger Source Type: blogs

Econoclasm Chapter Two, continued: The Death Spiral
It ' s been a few days since the last post in this series, so I ' ll remind you that last time, we posed the question, " What would happen if insurers were simply required to cover people for pre-existing conditions? " Problem solved, right? No. Problem made worse. Imagine what would happen. All of a sudden a whole lot of people with serious chronic diseases, who couldn ’t get health insurance before, will buy it now. They’re expensive to cover, so the premiums will go up for everybody. At that point some number of people who don’t need it quite as badly will drop their coverage, leaving only sicker people in th...
Source: Stayin' Alive - January 5, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs

PursueCare Completes Series B Fundraising Round and Acquires Digital Therapeutics Developed by Pear Therapeutics, Inc.
The Fundraising and Acquisition of Digital Therapeutics for SUD Strengthens PursueCare’s Ability to Provide Care for Individuals with Addiction PursueCare, a digital addiction treatment provider, today announced the completion of a Series B fundraising round totaling $20 million. The Series B round was led by T.Rx Capital and Yamaha Motor Ventures, with participation from Seyen Capital and OCA Ventures. The proceeds from the financing will support PursueCare’s ongoing collaborative care initiatives with health systems across 11 states, as well as expansion into value-based care with Medicaid managed care and other heal...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 5, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Corey McCann Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A Nicholas Mercadante OCA Ventures Pear Therapeutics PursueCare reSET reSET-O Seyen Capital T.Rx Capital Yamaha Motor Ventures Source Type: blogs

AI Inside
by KIM BELLARD Well: 2024. I’m excited about the Paris Olympics, but otherwise I’d be just as happy to sleep through all the nonsense that the November elections will bring. In any event, I might as well start out talking about one of the hottest topics of 2023 that will get even more so in 2024: AI. In particular, I want to look at what is being billed as the “AI PC.”  Most of us have come to know about ChatGPT. Google has Bard (plus DeepMind’s Gemini), Microsoft is building AI into Bing and its other products, Meta released an open source AI, and Apple is building its AI framework. There is a plet...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 5, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech AI AI PC Kim Bellard Source Type: blogs

Telehealth and VR – 2024 Health IT Predictions
As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions.  We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes.  In fact, we got so many that we had to narrow them down to just the best and most interesting.  Check out our community’s predictions below and be sure to add your own thoughts and/or places you disagree with these predictions in the comments and on social media. All of this year’s 2024 health IT predictions (updated as they’re shared): John and ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 4, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring 2024 Health IT Predictions 98point6 Technologies Agora Andrew Norden Anish Sebastian Artisig Source Type: blogs

The US needs a Chief Patient Officer
By KAT McDAVITT and LISA BARI Regulations are created by well-intentioned government employees who, understandably, focus on the loudest voices they hear. The loudest voices tend to be from organizations — vendors, associations, large corporations — that have the internal and external resources needed to access the federal government, navigate the 80,000-employee Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and ensure that the perspectives of their employers and members are heard. Patients do not have the resources to hire lobbyists or high-profile legal teams, nor do they have a large and well-funded tra...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 4, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Kat McDavitt Lisa Bari Patients patients rights regulatory capture Source Type: blogs

Transforming hospital operations: impacts on clinicians
This article is sponsored by symplr. Transforming hospital operations: impacts on clinicians In the rapidly evolving world of health care, the integration of advanced technology is not just an option, but a necessity. This transformation is not merely about adopting new tools; it’s about fundamentally redefining how hospitals operate and how clinicians provide care. The Read more… Transforming hospital operations: impacts on clinicians originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 4, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: