Involving parents in the mental health treatment of their kids can greatly improve health outcomes. But it’s not always easy for parents to get involved in a traditional brick-and-mortar setting, according to one mental…
Continue Reading
Digital health companies often start in the commercial market and thereafter target Medicaid plans. But not all startups are suited to serve the Medicaid population, according to Dr. Pooja Mittal, vice president and chief…
Continue Reading
Understanding how artificial intelligence (AI) fits into the future of a healthcare organization is a challenge at a level that most leaders have never faced and are not prepared for. Both clinicians and administrators…
Continue Reading
If newly proposed regulations are finalized in New York, hospitals in the state will soon have to beef up their cybersecurity measures.
This week, New York Governor Kathy Hochul released a proposed set of cybersecurity…
The fall and winter months present the healthcare system with a unique challenge: the simultaneous outbreak of influenza, Covid-19, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), a “tripledemic” that dominated last year’s headlines. Now, as healthcare…
Continue Reading
Starting this month, digital mental health company Talkspace will begin offering its telehealth services for free to all New York City teens between the ages of 13 and 17, the company announced Wednesday.
New York…
These numbers are astounding.
Between 1999 and 2021, nearly 645,000 people died of an opioid overdose. That’s in 22 years. Since the end of the Revolutionary War in 1783, the cumulative deaths from all American…
Hospitals across the country continue to grapple with the workforce crisis, with reports showing that nearly half of U.S. healthcare workers plan to leave their roles by 2025. To address this sweeping problem, health…
Continue Reading
There are a wealth of digital mental health solutions available now. But how do we actually know if they’re working for patients? Several digital health experts weighed in on this topic Wednesday at the…
Continue Reading
Sepsis kills more than 11 million people worldwide each year and contributes to 20% of all global deaths. The disease is also a leading cause of death in U.S. hospitals, and a septic patient’s…
Continue Reading
