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

__ 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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Upcoming award for behavioral health innovation

. Quick heads-up: The Scat­ter­good Foun­da­tion and the Kennedy Forum have part­nered to rec­og­nize inno­va­tions that chal­lenge how behav­ioral health­care is cur­rent­ly viewed, orga­nized, and prac­ticed through the cre­ation of cat­alyt­ic con­cepts, prod­ucts, process­es, ser­vices and/or technologies. 

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Dr. Gregory Bayer on Adding Brain to Behavioral Healthcare

Dr. Bay­er will dis­cuss Adding Brain to Behav­ioral Health­care, as part of the ses­sion Where will neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty-based inter­ven­tions be accessed, and how will they be reg­u­lated and paid for? at the upcom­ing 2012 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit (June 7–14th, 2012).

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