‘It’s All About Relationships’: Why AI Won’t — and Can’t — Replace Humans in Behavioral Health

The power of human relationships and liability concerns make replacing staff with artificial intelligence unlikely and ill-advised for the future. Industry insiders say the broader implementation of artificial intelligence in the behavioral health sector will likely magnify the work of staff and make the work experience better. “I’m a physician by training: I’m not really […]

Creating Pathways to Address Behavioral Health Needs

As a licensed clinician deeply embedded in crisis work for decades, I have had an up-close view of how our healthcare system has evolved to address growing behavioral health needs. This firsthand experience tells me our society urgently needs comprehensive and connected crisis systems. Our community does not currently have the same infrastructure to address […]

Universal Health Services Taps Oracle to Expand EHR System Across Behavioral Health Network

Universal Health Services (NYSE: UHS) has tapped Oracle to expand its electronic health record (EHR) system across its behavioral health network. While the provider has used Oracle’s EHR in its acute care hospitals for a decade, expanding the technology into its behavioral health facilities will give it a unified system across the entire organization. UHS […]

Acadia Chief Strategy Officer Andrew Lynch: It’s Time to Incentivize Behavioral Health EMR Adoption

As the rest of health care rapidly adopts new technological advances and data-use methods, many behavioral health providers are still using paper health records. Case in point: Less than half of behavioral health providers use electronic medical records. That’s a problem, some warn, because the lack of EMRs could hinder the industry from adopting cutting-edge […]

Patient Matching Sets Providers and Patients Up for Success — If Done Right

The pressure on behavioral health providers to improve outcome measures may make patient-matching technology a crucial part of their tech stack. The hope is that providers and patients alike are set up to succeed at the outset of treatment, accelerating the development of the oft-vaunted therapeutic alliance in behavioral health. If behavioral health organizations successfully […]

Optum, Aetna and UHS Leaders Offer ‘Outcomes Roadmap’ for Value-Based Contracting

Behavioral health providers have lagged behind their physical health counterparts in measuring outcomes. But that may soon change, industry insiders believe, as payers pressure providers to show more data before raising rates or negotiating value-based contracts. Even so, collecting the correct data to prove outcomes isn’t just on behavioral health companies. A true outcomes-based approach […]

CVS Health Ventures Leads $20M Investment in ABA Data Collection Startup SpectrumAi

SpectrumAi announced Thursday that it raised $20 million in Series A funding, with investment led by CVS Health Ventures. The funding will help the startup push its applied behavior analysis (ABA) electronic health record, Twyll, and Patterns, its network analytics platform.  CVS Health Ventures has made a slew of behavioral health tech-related venture investments over […]

Veradigm Leads $45M Investment in Behavioral Health Data Science Startup Holmusk

Behavioral health data science and technology company Holmusk raised a $45 million series B financing round. On Tuesday, the company announced the investment will help scale up its NeuroBlu Database, its flagship product and a real-world behavioral health data source. The deal also comes with a data-sharing agreement. Veradigm Inc. (NASDAQ: MDRX), formerly Allscripts Healthcare […]