Behavioral Health Business August 26, 2024
Too few people are getting the health care they need. This is especially true of behavioral health care, where one in five adults suffer from mental health conditions.
Now one behavioral health CEO says he’s had enough.
“There’s a growing consensus around the fact that the system is broken: it’s not meeting the needs of the patients that it’s designed to serve, and even more frustrating, it’s not really addressing the needs of the clinicians that work within it,” says Erik Osland, CEO of evolvedMD. “There’s a lot of things we can tackle within a broken system.”
What Osland sees is an overriding lack of health professionals tying physical health to mental health, despite a longstanding industry knowledge of the...