Teladoc Health, having acquired Livongo and myStrength, launches integrated mental health service for the workplace

Teladoc builds out men­tal health­care ser­vices with myS­trength Com­plete (Mobi­Health­News):

Vir­tu­al care giant Teladoc is build­ing out its behav­ioral health ser­vices through its lat­est pro­gram, myS­trength Complete.

The new offer­ing is designed to give users a sin­gle inte­grat­ed men­tal health­care expe­ri­ence. It com­bines the app-based mod­els of care from myS­trength with Teladoc’s on-demand ther­a­pists and psy­chi­a­trists … The myS­trength plat­form uses evi­dence-based clin­i­cal mod­els such as cog­ni­tive behav­ioral ther­a­py, pos­i­tive psy­chol­o­gy and mind­ful­ness to help treat behav­ioral health con­di­tions such as depres­sion, anx­i­ety, insom­nia and sub­stance use disorder.

The com­pa­ny was bought by Livon­go in 2019 and was then absorbed in Teladoc’s acqui­si­tion of Livon­go last year.

myS­trength Com­plete will be avail­able to indi­vid­u­als through their health plans or employ­ers in July, Teladoc said in its announcement.

The Announcement:

Teladoc Health Launch­es “myS­trength Com­plete” As First Uni­fied Men­tal Health Care Expe­ri­ence (press release):

Teladoc Health, Inc. (NYSE: TDOC) today announced the launch of myS­trength Com­plete, an inte­grat­ed men­tal health ser­vice pro­vid­ing per­son­al­ized, tar­get­ed care to con­sumers in a sin­gle, com­pre­hen­sive expe­ri­ence. The announce­ment comes as more than half of peo­ple with men­tal health con­cerns report that they do not know where to start when get­ting care, high­light­ing the impor­tance of the dig­i­tal front door myS­trength Com­plete will pro­vide … Some 69 per­cent of peo­ple sur­veyed who sought sup­port indi­cat­ed it would be dif­fi­cult and/or over­whelm­ing to use mul­ti­ple web­sites, mobile apps or vir­tu­al care plat­forms to address men­tal health needs. myS­trength Complete’s pro­pri­etary stepped care mod­el is designed to seam­less­ly com­bine app-based tools and coach­ing exper­tise with Teladoc’s ther­a­pists and psy­chi­a­trists to ensure that con­sumers get the lev­el of men­tal health sup­port and care they need, when they need it.

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