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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October 21st in Tokyo: Your Health in A Virtual World

To cel­e­brate and help pre­pare for the 2020 Sum­mer Olympics in Tokyo, the Japan­ese Min­istry of Edu­ca­tion, Cul­ture, Sports, Sci­ence and Tech­nol­o­gy and the World Eco­nom­ic Forum are host­ing a World Forum on Sport and Cul­ture in Tokyo lat­er this week. I’ve been asked to par­tic­i­pate in a fas­ci­nat­ing ses­sion on Fri­day, Octo­ber 21st, titled Your Health…

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