Mental Health news and trends

Talkspace Teams With Amazon on Behavioral Health Benefits
Partnerships // September 17, 2024

Online behavioral health care company Talkspace has joined an Amazon Health Services program that helps individuals discover and enroll in their health insurance benefits. With this partnership, individuals who search Amazon.com for topics like “stress relief,” “family therapy” or “sleep help” will discover a way to check their...

Spring Health Taps AI to Help With Mental Health Care
Healthcare // August 05, 2024

April Koh, at 31, stands as the youngest woman to lead a multi-billion dollar company as CEO of Spring Health, a mental health tech startup now valued at $3.3 billion. Koh’s journey began at Yale University, where personal experiences with mental health challenges sparked an...

AI Regulations: EU Probes, Unilever Prepares, Utah Innovates
artificial intelligence // July 30, 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) regulation takes center stage as the EU investigates X’s (formerly Twitter) data practices, Unilever adopts a proactive stance and Utah targets mental health chatbots. These moves signal a shifting landscape in AI governance across the tech, business and healthcare sectors. EU Regulator...

TikTok Suspends Rewards Program Amid EU Pressure
Social Commerce // April 24, 2024

TikTok has suspended a rewards program on TikTok Lite amid a dispute with European Union (EU) regulators. “TikTok always seeks to engage constructively with the EU Commission and other regulators,” the TikTok Policy Europe account said in a Wednesday (April 24) post on X (formerly Twitter). “We are therefore...

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Spring Health Taps AI to Help With Mental Health Care

August 05, 2024
April Koh, at 31, stands as the youngest woman to lead a multi-billion dollar company as CEO of Spring Health, a mental health tech startup now valued at $3.3 billion. Koh’s journey began at Yale University, where personal experiences with mental health challenges sparked an idea. What started as an academic research project in 2016 […]

Cutting-Edge Therapies and Telehealth Gain as More Seek New Mental Health Options

April 27, 2022
The American Psychiatric Association (ASA) found in a year-end 2021 study that “one in four Americans (26%) or more than 67 million adults” plan on improving their mental health in...

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Talkspace Teams With Amazon on Behavioral Health Benefits

September 17, 2024
Online behavioral health care company Talkspace has joined an Amazon Health Services program that helps individuals discover and enroll in their health insurance benefits. With this partnership, individuals who search Amazon.com for topics like “stress relief,” “family therapy” or “sleep help” will discover a way to check their eligibility for therapy and psychiatric services, the companies said in […]

TikTok Suspends Rewards Program Amid EU Pressure

April 24, 2024
TikTok has suspended a rewards program on TikTok Lite amid a dispute with European Union (EU) regulators. “TikTok always seeks to engage constructively with the EU Commission and other regulators,” the TikTok Policy...

Employers Increase Access to Mental Health-Related Chatbots or Apps

December 27, 2023
Employers are increasingly offering wellness chatbots as a worker benefit. About two-thirds of large employers have added access to mental health-related chatbots or apps over the past three years, The...

Shelpful Raises $3 Million for Personal Productivity and Accountability Solution 

December 15, 2023
Shelpful has raised a $3 million seed investment to continue adding features and partnerships to its solution that helps people build lasting habits around health, happiness and self-care.  The Shelpful service...