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Make Behavioral Health More Accessible: Are You Up for the Challenge?
The 2020 AHA Innovation Challenge aims to disrupt behavioral health care, inspire new strategies and test bold ideas that will make it easier for people living with psychiatric or substance-use disorders to obtain and afford better treatment, shatter the stigma commonly associated with behavioral health conditions and change lives for the better.
6 Imperatives to Improving Behavioral Health Access
A new AHA Executive Summary, “Regional Networks: Improving Access to Behavioral Health Services,” provides insights for communities that want to improve access to behavioral health services through community partnerships. The report assesses key elements for building and maintaining a successful regional behavioral health network.
Will AI Be the Next Frontier in Behavioral Health?
Today researchers are expanding their focus to assess the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in psychiatry and therapy to include facial recognition, text analysis software and other tools. The aim is to supplement clinicians’ efforts to spot mental illnesses earlier and improve treatments for patients.
Surge in Demand for Pediatric Behavioral Health Services Fuels Funding for Startup Brightline
Behavioral health startups that offer virtual care continue to draw strong interest from investors, with pediatric-focused Brightline being the latest example.
Disrupting Behavioral Health: Achieving Greater Access and Equity
Some provider organizations are developing powerful networks by forging broad-based community partnerships, integrating physical and behavioral health care and more to address barriers to access. During a recent AHA Transformation Talks video, leaders from WakeMed Health and Hospitals in Raleigh, N.C., shared strategies to overcome these disparities and increase patient access to appropriate caregivers at the right time and place.
How to Check the Pulse of Your Digital Behavioral Health Efforts
At the peak of New York state’s COVID-19 outbreak, Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx was at the epicenter. For the behavioral health center, that meant greatly expanding its already innovative use of digital solutions to connect with its patients. This would be needed to continue to serve the 250 to 300 behavioral health patients the center typically sees each day.
AHA, AVIA Launch Assessment for Behavioral Health Digital Strategy
A new behavioral health digital strategy assessment — brought free to AHA members by a collaboration between the AHA and digital health consultancy AVIA — allows hospitals and health systems to advance the integration of physical and behavioral health with digital solutions.
How Can You Address Increasing Demand for Behavioral Health Services?
Heightened demand for behavioral health services has presented hospitals and health systems with challenges and opportunities to increase capacity, forge partnerships to deliver care to patients and caregivers, and leverage tools to assess their capabilities.
Employers Will Be Focusing on These 3 Health Care Strategy Areas. Are You Ready?
America’s employers will evaluate their health plans, partnerships and vendors more closely this year as they try to create value, achieve higher quality and procure cost-effective services.
Digitally Enable an Effective COVID-19 Behavioral Health Strategy
On June 17 at 1 p.m. ET, the AHA and Avia Health Innovation will host a webinar during which experts will share how hospitals and health systems successfully have deployed digital solutions to provide access to behavioral health care treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic.