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Mika Health and Cancer Support Community Aim to Close Gaps in Mental Health Care with United States’ First AI-Enabled “Precision Support” Digital Therapeutic That is Free for Cancer Patients

Digital Health Global

Mika’s personalized, treatment-specific support will be available to one million patients and caregivers served by Cancer Support Community. Multilingual and multicultural patient and caregiver resources and insights from CSC to optimize Mika’s therapeutic in order to address physical and mental health barriers.

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A Vote for Telehealth is a Vote for American Patients’ and Doctors’ Well-Being

Health Populi

Mental health can be scaled with telehealth. map and citizens’ access has been marked with mental health supply shortages. Mental health via virtual platforms has sustained significant use since the waning of the public health crisis. It is a critical time for the U.S.

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Massive Bio and Mika Health Combine AI and Next-Generation Sequencing Biomarker Testing to Empower Cancer Patients On Treatment and Those Searching for and Participating in Clinical Trials in the United States and Europe

Digital Health Global

Combination of AI-enabled clinical trial matching, genetic testing, symptom management, psychosocial, and lifestyle support addresses physical and mental health gaps patients experience in seeking and accessing treatments while accelerating access to these critical resources.

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How Telepsychiatry Can Support an Effective Integrated Care Model

Iris Telehealth

Integrated mental health services acknowledge that mental health and physical health don’t exist in silos and make high-quality care a reality for patients across the country. Likewise, depression can increase the risk of many physical health problems such as heart disease and stroke.

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What If We Built a Consumer-Enchanting Health System in the Context of HLTH 2023? Building Blocks for the Scenario

Health Populi

Marc Harrison, most recently CEO of Intermountain Health, to take on the CEO role for the launch of a new health services company: HATco, the Health Assurance Transformation Corporation. Nothing in health care happens overnight, and this concept has been hatching since 2017, GC’s press release explains.

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How You Can Increase Throughput in Your Emergency Department With Telepsychiatry

Iris Telehealth

million patients visit hospital emergency departments in the United States each year. Among those seeking emergency care from EDs is a growing number of patients suffering from mental health crises. So, why is it difficult to address mental health needs in the ED? According to the CDC , approximately 146.5

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Patients have ambitious health goals, and look to doctors for help

Health Populi

Sleep, too, or lack thereof, is top-of-mind for so many consumers: there was a growing category of sleep-assisting digital health tools featured at the 2018 CES, which I covered here in the Huffington Post. One-third of people cite mental health as a goal, closely followed by improving finances.