children’s mental health
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Cartwheel Snags $20M For School-based Mental Health Services
Cartwheel, a startup that partners with school districts to provide virtual mental health services, raised $20 million in Series A funds. The company is working with about 50 school districts and charter school networks across Massachusetts, Illinois, New York, Rhode Island and Connecticut.
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Study On Teen Mental Health App Shows High Engagement, Positive Impact
A study on BeMe Health, a behavioral health platform for teens, found that users engaged with the platform eight times on average over a month. The study was done in collaboration with Stanford University.
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Payer’s Place: Dawn Maroney
Dawn Maroney, President, Markets of Alignment Health and CEO of Alignment Health Plan, to discuss how they are using technology to provide better service and care to consumers.
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Daybreak Health Snags $13M For School-Based Mental Health Services
Daybreak Health — a startup that partners with school districts to provide children with virtual mental health services — recently closed a $13 million Series B funding round. The company has partnered with more than 60 public school districts since it began providing care in 2019.
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Consumer / Employer, Health Tech
Spring Health Upgrades Family Mental Health Services
Spring Health’s Family Care solution now serves kids of all ages and their parents. It connects each family with a care navigator and offers a dashboard that allows parents and caregivers to track their child’s care.
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MedCity Influencers, Health Tech
Patient Engagement in Virtual Mental Healthcare Requires Deep Understanding, Flexibility and Creativity
The best approach to addressing this shortage of behavioral health professionals is more widespread adoption of virtual mental healthcare, a method of care delivery that is particularly appealing to college students.
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Pediatric Mental Health Crisis Tops ECRI’s List of 2023 Patient Safety Concerns
Each year, nonprofit ECRI creates a list of the industry’s top ten patient safety concerns. This year, the pediatric mental health crisis topped the list, above other important issues like violence against healthcare staff and clinicians being expected to work outside their scope of practice.
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UNC Health to Open New Youth-Specific Psychiatric Hospital to Address the Mental Health Crisis
UNC Health has partnered with the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services to open a new inpatient psychiatric hospital for children and adolescents. The partners came together because action is desperately needed to increase access to youth mental health services — research has found a significant link between the country’s shortage of mental health professionals and its rise in youth suicides.
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New Children’s Mental Health Startup Emerges from Redesign Health
Fort Health, a new startup built at Redesign Health, recently launched as a provider of mental healthcare services for children. The company has developed a telehealth-based mental health clinic that partners with pediatricians for referrals and health plans for coverage.
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Evernorth: Suicide-related Behavior Is on the Rise for American Youth
Suicide-related diagnoses in children and adolescents increased 14% since before the pandemic, a new Evernorth analysis shows. Female and Asian/Pacific Islander youth are especially struggling.
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Applying Remote Patient Monitoring to Surgery Prep and Recovery, Oncology and Women’s Health
Join us to learn about the latest trends in remote monitoring and how to extend its benefits beyond chronic conditions to more patients – all while using fewer staff resources.
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3 Measures Children’s Hospitals Need to Survive in 2023
In order to provide quality pediatric care, children’s hospitals need more government support, Children’s Hospital Association CEO Mark Wietecha argued in a recent letter to Congress. He recommended Congress enact 12-month continuous eligibility for children covered by Medicaid or CHIP, allocate more money to pediatric physician training, and enhance Medicaid’s low reimbursement rates for pediatric care.
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Report: Kids’ ED visits, inpatient admissions for mental health are increasing steadily
Mental health-related emergency department visits and inpatient hospital admissions have been rising among U.S. children from 2016-21, according to new research. The report unveiled significant mental health utilization disparities between children covered by Medicaid and commercial insurance plans.
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Health Tech, Hospitals, Startups, SYN
Northwell pours $10M into Brightline as it, other providers aim to address pediatric mental health crisis
Brightline, a telehealth company that provides pediatric mental health care, received a $10 million investment from Northwell Health. The startup will use the funds to scale its platform, as well as pursue a strategic partnership in which Northwell’s patients receive in-network care on its platform.
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Butler University debuts mental health app from LifeOmic and Preventia
Preventia and LifeOmic partnered to create the free LIFE Extend app to serve mental health needs of Butler University students. It not only connects them to online therapists, but also helps students track their sleep, exercise, nutrition, and mindfulness.
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Consumer / Employer, Health Tech, SYN
Brightline raises $105M to expand virtual mental healthcare services to diverse populations
The company’s digital on-demand platform, Connect, along with its coaching programs and clinical services—which include behavioral therapy, evaluation, medication support and speech therapy—are now available in all 50 states
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Consumer / Employer, Health Tech
Amwell’s SilverCloud Health unveils digital mental health resources for families at HIMSS
The company rolled out new programs, content, interactive tools and videos aimed at addressing family mental health. The offerings seek to fill in gaps in mental healthcare to ensure children and parents get the help they need.