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Is Mental Health ready for Generative AI?

Lloyd Price

Acceptance by patients and clinicians: Generative AI is a new technology, and it may take time for patients and clinicians to accept it as a legitimate form of mental healthcare. Despite these challenges, there is a lot of potential for generative AI to improve mental healthcare.

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Pelago Announces $58 Million Series C Funding to Strengthen Leadership in Substance Use Management

Healthcare IT Today

We’re addressing a gap in the market left by employee assistance programs and mental health benefits providers who are unable to detect and treat substance use disorders. And for those that do receive SUD treatment in mental health settings – the treatment itself is not the specialized SUD treatment they need.

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Tech’s Role in Mental Health – Healthcare IT Today Podcast Episode 64

Healthcare IT Today

For the 64th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re talking about Tech’s Role in Mental Health. Even before COVID-19, mental health was a really important topic. Of course, the […].

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Where telehealth can help curb the mental health staffing shortage

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

It should not be news to anyone in the healthcare industry that the nation is suffering a profound shortage of mental health professionals, which was exacerbated by the pandemic. What is news to many is the different ways various telemedicine technologies are being used to help chip away at the mental health-staffing problem.

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The Rising Use of Telehealth for the Delivery of Outpatient Mental Health Services

Healthcare IT Today

Partner at Berger Singerman LLP Telehealth has revolutionized the delivery of outpatient mental health services, and there has been exponential growth in the acceptance and delivery of remote care. The following is a guest article by Michael Levinson, M.D., The sofa at home will work just fine. A national public opinion poll of U.S.

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Upcoming Healthcare Regulations and Their Impact on Healthcare IT

Healthcare IT Today

To help out, we reached out to our amazing Healthcare IT Today Community to see which healthcare regulations they foresee having a big impact on healthcare IT. Healthcare IT systems, especially EHRs, played a key role in supporting documentation with the use of macros, smart phrases, and templates.

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It’s Private: Innovative Techniques Begin to Address Clinicians’ Mental Health

Healthcare IT Today

Mental health is also negatively impacted by our tech-heavy lifestyles, especially within patient care. Innovating Mental Health in Clinical Settings Mental health is a private matter. For clinicians, these nascent intrusions on the human brain inhibit both executive functioning and personal relationships.