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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Dr. Gregory Bayer on Adding Brain to Behavioral Healthcare

By SharpBrains | June 4, 2012

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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Brain Teasers on Brain Training/ Games for Health Conference

By Alvaro Fernandez | June 16, 2009

Giv­en the whole dis­tract­ing “con­tro­ver­sy” of whether Nin­ten­do Brain Age “works” or not, I have start­ed to use the fol­low­ing “brain teasers” in my talks in order to help the audi­ence gain a more use­ful per­spec­tive of what is going on. They worked great both in the Medicare Read­mis­sions Sum­mit in DC a few weeks…

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