The BHT Newsletter: Three Tactics to Affect Change for Medicaid Mental Health

In our latest blog post , Brad Kittredge discusses the urgent need to improve mental healthcare access for Medicaid enrollees. Additionally, he covers three ways to make meaningful progress on this critical issue. Brad is the CEO and Co-Founder of Brightside Health , a BHT partner delivering life-saving mental healthcare to people with mild to severe clinical depression, anxiety, and other mood disorders, including those with elevated suicide risk.

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Upcoming Webinar: The Ease and Importance of Measurement Informed Care

Tremendous opportunities exist to leverage technology to improve the use of measurement informed care in ways that benefit patients, providers and payors. In this session, we'll hear from leaders across the healthcare ecosystem about the power of collecting measures, ways to incorporate them into the treatment process to reduce administrative burden for clinicians, and the connection of measurement informed care to value based care contracts. This conversation features an incredible roster of panelists including:

• Cynthia Grant - Head of Clinical Excellence, Grow Therapy
• Russell DuBois, Ph.D. - Sr. Director of Enterprise Clinical Strategy & Quality, Teladoc Health
• Andy Kelly - SVP of Provider Enablement, Optum

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Get your tickets to BHT2024! ???

Tickets are going quickly to BHT2024 , the premier event for all things behavioral health and innovation! Check out some of the amazing testimonials from attendees at last year's event and snag your tickets now before they go up in price!

• "It was by far the best conference that I have been to in quite a long time."
• "Of all of the BH conferences I have been to in the past 13 years, this one, by far, has been the most valuable. I made back my ROI by noon today."
• “The conference was so great - amazing location, panels, discussions, and learning! Truly one of the best conferences I’ve visited."
• “This was HANDS DOWN the best and most productive event I have attended."
• "One of the most valuable conferences I attended over the past 3 years. I'll be there again and encourage others to consider going.”?

Register for BHT2024!

Behavioral Health Tech Jobs ??

Check out some recently posted roles from organizations in the BHT community:?

• Director of Finance and Operations - Institute for Exceptional Care (IEC) (Remote)
• Controller - Bicycle Health (Remote)
• VP, Finance and Investor Relations - Spring Health (New York)
• Senior Associate, Strategy & Operations - Headway (Remote)

We're currently re-evaluating how to best offer career resources at Behavioral Health Tech, including a new and improved job board and talent collective! We'd love to hear from you on what that would look like. If you're interested, please take this quick, 3-question survey to share your thoughts and feedback on what would be most helpful.

Nominations are now open for the Young Innovators in Behavioral Health Awards ??

Join us in celebrating the innovative contributions of young leaders in mental health! This week marks the opening of nominations for the Second Annual Young Innovators in Behavioral Health Awards, recognizing the contributions of young leaders aged 18-29 in advancing mental health access and awareness. Supported by prominent organizations like Hopelab and other organizations, winners will receive cash prizes and invitations to the Behavioral Health Tech Conference in Phoenix. Nominations close on June 18, 2024.

Nominate a young innovator!

Headlines in Behavioral Health ??

• Boulder Care?raises $35M for virtual addiction treatment
• As You Are teams up with Included Health to increase access, expedite care for pediatric patients suspected to have autism
• Wayspring secures minority investment led by CVS Health Ventures
• New study published in JMIR mHealth and uHealth - Improvement and Maintenance of Clinical Outcomes in a Digital Mental Health Platform: Findings from an Observational Real-World Study
• BHT nonprofit partner Institute for Exceptional Care announces a new brand and website
• Neurodivergent employees aren’t disclosing their conditions at work because they worry it will hurt their career
• Health Colorado joins forces with Wisdo Health ?in a statewide campaign to address social isolation
• Bonfire Analytics, a platform designed to drive sales leads in healthcare, raised $2 million in its first round of venture funding,
• Meharry School of Global Health releases landmark report ?showing mental health inequities in the U.S. could cost an estimated $14 trillion by 2040

Behavioral Health Tech Hits the Road???

Earlier this week in Dana Point, California, our Founder & CEO Solome Tibebu joined an impressive panel during FORTUNE BRAINSTORM Health 2024 for an important session, "Youth and Mental Health: How is The Next Generation Coping?"?

The two day conference offered an impressive gathering of executives from Fortune 500 and other leading companies at the crossroads of business, healthcare, technology, and innovation discussing key issues around the future of healthcare.

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