Modern Healthcare August 4, 2018
As healthcare providers work to engage patients and identify mental health needs, they’re facing a new challenge: a shortage of mental healthcare professionals. So they’re turning to apps.
“There’s a greater recognition of the importance of behavioral health across all aspects of medicine,” said Dr. Eric Louie, Healthbox chief medical officer. “Because of this resurgence of interest, there’s a great demand for the resources to manage this,” he said. “We have to think of more intelligent and imaginative ways of using limited resources and of engaging patients in the process.”
The thousands of health apps available in Apple’s App Store and the Google Play store are a testament to that effort, as are behavioral health-specific programs popping up at health...
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