Scalable Behavorial Health

In any one week, a typical consumer today might get a Facebook ad for AbleTo, see a TV ad for TalkSpace, receive a subscription to Headspace as a perk, and get emails about Lyra as an offering through work.

Considered a crisis before COVID-19, the system to support behavioral health needs in the US has been stretched beyond its breaking point and many patients aren’t able to get care. As more people fall into the “underserved” category than fall in the served category, it opens up an opportunity for new approaches, such as a willingness to look at digital solutions to provide scale. Simply put everyone deserves access to high-quality affordable mental healthcare–and digital is the key to scalability.

FEATURED REPORT

It’s Behavioral Health’s Time, Finally.

In this research-based report you’ll learn:

  • How digital can expand resources to address the ‘supply and demand’ challenge facing specialized behavioral health services.
  • How digital can create an integrated, cyclical model that screens and evaluates patients, improves navigation, and drives ongoing support to optimize care, and how Providence has successfully implemented this program.
  • An overview of the digital solutions most suitable to plug into an integrated offering, and where the largest opportunities are for innovators to build new, sustainable solutions that address the needs of patients, payers, and providers.

Roughly

1 in 5

people will have a behavioral health need in a given year.
(source)

Only

44.8%

of American adults with a mental illness receive treatment.
(source)

21%

of Americans who wanted to see a mental health care professional were unable to do so.
(source)

Featured Scalable Behavioral Health Projects

The Providence Digital Innovation Group partnered with the Providence Mental Health and Substance Use clinical team to research over 40 CCBT solutions, complete 9 vendor evaluations, pilot two solutions and select a CCBT tool of choice for the system based upon effectiveness, patient engagement, physician experience, cost and scalability.

To help care givers get to the right resource at the right time, Dr. Arpan Wagray, CMO for Providence Behavioral Medicine, and his team partnered with the Providence Digital Innovation Group’s Digital Experience Team (DeX) to build a tool that helps caregivers navigate to the broad behavioral health resources available to them.

Recommended Behavioral Health Resources

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Additional Reading

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What is Digital’s Potential in Addressing the Looming Mental Health Crisis

June 18, 2021  |  Providence Digital Innovation Group

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It’s Behavioral Health’s Time, Finally.

May 7, 2021  |  Aaron Martin

In any one week, a typical consumer today might get a Facebook ad for AbleTo, see a TV ad for TalkSpace, receive a subscription to Headspace as a perk, and get emails about Lyra as an offering through work. Behavioral health technology is out in full force, and for good reason. Roughly 1 in 5 […]

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2021: The Year Broken Health Care Systems Begin the Healing Process

February 24, 2021  |  Sara Vaezy

The Covid-19 pandemic didn’t break healthcare. It just brought to high relief the existing fractures. This is good, because those fracture lines become the map and roadways for where we in health care innovation need to focus our efforts. And having the failures of our systems be so obvious is giving set-in-their-ways health systems, payors […]

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Making Good On The Promise of Computerized Therapy

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Licensed clinical social worker Josh Cutler has helped many navigate the mental health care system. The process, he says, can be frustrating, even more so because people seeking care for mental health issues may already be incredibly stressed. When they bump up against difficulty getting the help they need, they can become even more distressed […]

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The Promise of Digital Technology To Transform The Mental Wellbeing of the Communities We Serve

May 1, 2018  |  Providence Digital Innovation Group

In the United States, one in five adults experience mental illness in a given year. This represents an incredible amount of pain and suffering endured by millions. A Massive, National Problem.  On average, one American dies every four minutes due to suicide or drug- or alcohol-induced causes. The impact of behavioral conditions is further pronounced […]