How much should you trust BetterHelp, Talkspace, Cerebral and other mental health start-ups touted by celebrities?

By Kaiser Health News | July 11, 2022

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,…

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Dos and Don’ts of Therapy on the Go: Navigating the use of apps for mental health care

By The Conversation | June 13, 2022

It might be sur­pris­ing to think about brows­ing for ther­a­pists and order­ing up men­tal health care the way you can peruse a menu on Grub­hub or sum­mon a car on Lyft. But over the last decade, dig­i­tal access to ther­a­py has become increas­ing­ly com­mon, in some cas­es replac­ing the tra­di­tion­al mod­el of in-per­­son week­ly ses­sions between…

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Funding for digital health start-ups, especially in mental health, fall substantially in Q1’22

By SharpBrains | May 3, 2022

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…

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Consumer Reports finds unclear, questionable privacy practices and policies among popular mental health apps

By SharpBrains | March 4, 2021

Men­tal Health Apps Aren’t All As Pri­vate As You May Think (Con­sumer Reports): Type “men­tal health” or a con­di­tion such as anx­i­ety or depres­sion into an app store search bar, and you can end up scrolling through end­less screens of options. As a recent Con­sumer Reports inves­ti­ga­tion has found, these apps take wide­ly var­ied approaches…

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Debate: How and when will the telemedicine surge reach mental healthcare?

By Alvaro Fernandez | August 25, 2020

Covid-19 Pan­dem­ic Dri­ves Patients—and Deal Makers—to Telemed­i­cine (The Wall Street Jour­nal): The coro­n­avirus pan­dem­ic has put the once-niche cat­e­go­ry of telemed­i­cine in the spot­light and is now dri­ving a flur­ry of deal activ­i­ty involv­ing vir­tu­al health-care providers … Patients have embraced vir­tu­al care as a way to stay in touch with doc­tors for urgent care or…

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