Trend: Growing interest in digital mental health among insurers and medical care providers

By SharpBrains | April 30, 2020

__ In Men­tal Health Play, UnitedHealth’s Optum May Buy Vir­tu­al Provider Able­To (Forbes): “Unit­ed­Health Group’s Optum med­ical provider unit may increase its invest­ment in Able­To, a provider of vir­tu­al behav­ioral health­care ser­vices. Such a deal, which some reports say could be an out­right acqui­si­tion, would be sig­nif­i­cant because

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Trend: Consumers increasingly taking care of their behavioral health via DIY tools like these

By SharpBrains | April 16, 2019

_______ 8 con­­sumer-friend­­ly dig­i­tal tools to sup­port behav­ioral health (mobi­health news): “From vir­tu­al ther­a­py to mind­ful­ness and med­i­ta­tion aids, there’s lit­tle short­age of dig­i­tal tools catch­ing investors’ eyes and break­ing into the crowd­ed behav­ioral health mar­ket. Although a num­ber of these ser­vices are posi­tion­ing their busi­ness to focus on pay­ers and employ­ers, many oth­ers are…

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