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Mayor Adams, DOHMH Commissioner Dr. Vasan Launch ‘TeenSpace’ With Talkspace, Tele-mental Health Service For NYC Teens

Digital Health Global

The launch delivers on a key commitment from Mayor Adams’ “Working People’s Agenda” and “Care, Community, Action,” his mental health plan for New York City released in March. Earlier this year, we pledged to make mental health support available to all New York City teens, and today we are delivering on that promise.

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The Cost to Cover Health Insurance for a Family in America Is $22,221

Health Populi

Figure A shows the family health insurance premium cost-sharing between employers and workers over ten years. The premium cost-growth between 2011 and 2016 was 20%, and between 2016 and 2021, 22%. The employee’s share grew from $4,129 in 2011 to nearly $6,000 in 2021, 45% growth over the decade.

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DarioHealth Acquires Digital Therapeutics Startup Twill

Digital Health Wire

The flash flood of ViVE news is officially here, and one of the biggest stories from the first wave was DarioHealth’s acquisition of mental health digital therapeutics startup Twill for $10M plus another $20M in stock.

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Black Health Should Matter More in America: The Undefeated Survey on Race and Health

Health Populi

More than four times as many Black women believe that it’s a bad time to be Black in America in 2020 versus 2011, we learn from The Undefeated Survey on Race and Health from Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF). The public health pandemic has converged in 2020 with the negative impacts of financial stress and mental health tolls.

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Addictive Social Media & Work Overload: Social Media Depression?

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Research has found that work overload can lead to mental health problems, particularly burnout, decreased life satisfaction, and work dissatisfaction. 2018 ), and other mental health consequences (Dar et al., It also can contribute to depression, anxiety (Elshaer et al., Characteristics of Addictive Social Media Use.

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Amazon Care Partners with Ginger to Add Behavioral Health Services

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Ginge r has been a teletherapy startup offering on-demand mental healthcare since 2011, using smartphone-based technology to connect clinicians with consumers. The company was recently in the news for merging with Headspace, resulting in a $3 billion mental health business.

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Australia ends support for 128 telehealth items

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

To avoid redundancy, superseded pre-COVID telehealth and associated items have been removed from the MBS, including GP and other medical practitioner mental health consultations and general attendances by video. THE LARGER CONTEXT.