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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.
3 Ways to Strengthen Physical and Behavioral Health Integration
As hospital and health leaders continue to seek sustainable solutions to address workforce shortages, negative margins and rising labor costs, they may want to take a deeper look at ways to integrate physical and behavioral health services.
Need Help Evaluating Mental Health Apps? New AHRQ Brief Offers Direction
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) recently issued a technical brief, “Evaluation of Mental Health Mobile Applications” to aid providers, patients, payers and others to evaluate mental health and wellness mobile apps' safety and efficacy and what consumer protections they offer.
AHA Innovation Dialogue Explores Efforts to Improve Women’s Health, Equity
In a new AHA Innovation Dialogue, AHA Maternal and Child Health Council Chair Lara Khouri, executive vice president and chief strategy and transformation officer at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, talks with SteelSky Ventures Founding Partner Maria Velissaris about where the fund, which invests in early-stage startups focused on improving women’s health outcomes, is headed.
UnitedHealth Deal Expands PBM Reach
UnitedHealth Group, the nation's largest health insurer, and Genoa Healthcare, one of the nation's largest pharmacy chains, are teaming up in a move that could bring significant cost savings and improved operational efficiency in caring for psychiatric patients and those with substance use disorders.
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.
How You’re Transforming: Acadia Hospital
Acadia Hospital, Bangor, Maine, a nonprofit acute care psychiatric hospital employing more than 30 psychiatrists and psychiatric nurses, has helped rural hospitals in the state and as far away as Indiana bridge this critical gap in ED services with videoconferencing technology.
How AI Will Impact Care Delivery in 2020
Sixty faculty members from Partners HealthCare — the Boston-based system that has been at the forefront of exploring artificial intelligence — recently identified 12 emerging AI technologies with the greatest potential to impact health care as soon as next year. The team identified its “Disruptive Dozen” AI technologies at the World Medical Innovation Forum. Speakers focused on how AI will impact diagnosis and treatment over the coming year, citing such areas as AI’s potential to identify individuals at risk of domestic violence, to predict suicide risk and to narrow the gaps in behavioral health care.
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.