Our accessibility to crisis intervention needs to be as adaptable and convenient as our virtual world requires in order to further our plunge into a fully digital age. 

Big Health is the leading provider of scalable, clinically validated, non-drug treatments for the most common mental health conditions. As detailed in this GDBHT2023 session, Big Health’s two products — Sleepio for insomnia and Daylight for generalized anxiety disorder — have been shown in more than 80 peer-reviewed papers to deliver improved clinical outcomes without serious side effects.

While it’s great to have ambitious long-term goals and think creatively about how healthcare in America can be better, startups that think practically about how to work within the current healthcare system in terms of payment and implementation will be the most successful.

Just as the introduction of MRIs some 40 years ago transformed medical diagnostics, surgery and cancer care, emerging technologies can revolutionize the current inadequate standards of screening, diagnosing and treating mental health disorders.