初创公司推出老年行为健康支持-动脉网

Startup Launches to Provide Geriatric Behavioral Health Support

MedCity News 等信源发布 2024-12-21 02:49

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About 25% of adults over the age of 65 battle mental health challenges, including depression and anxiety, and 63% do not receive adequate care.

大约25%的65岁以上成年人应对心理健康挑战，包括抑郁和焦虑，63%的人没有得到足够的照顾。

A new startup aims to move the needle on this stat. Vitalic, a geriatric behavioral health platform, has launched with $4 million in seed funding, it shared with MedCity News exclusively. The startup was born out of innovation company Redesign Health and payer/provider VNS Health, both of which contributed to the seed funding..

一家新成立的公司旨在推动这一统计数据的发展。Vitalic是一家老年行为健康平台，已投入400万美元的种子资金，并与MedCity News独家分享。这家初创公司诞生于创新公司Redesign Health和付款人/提供者VNS Health，两者都为种子基金做出了贡献。。

Vitalic, based in Boston, works with payers and identifies high-cost, polychronic members with mental health conditions. It then contacts the members to engage them into an eight to 12-week model with Vitalic. Patients are connected to a team that includes geriatric boarded psychiatrists, psychiatric nurse practitioners, licensed therapists and mental health support coaches.

总部位于波士顿的Vitalic与付款人合作，确定具有心理健康状况的高成本多时会员。然后，它会联系成员，让他们参与一个为期8到12周的Vitalic模型。患者与一个团队有联系，该团队包括老年住院精神科医生、精神科护士、执业治疗师和心理健康支持教练。

Patients receive telehealth sessions via Zoom, direct messaging with their care team and personalized mood assessments..

患者通过Zoom、与护理团队的直接信息传递和个性化情绪评估接受远程医疗服务。。

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改变病人护理：人工智能辅助人员的作用

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人工智能（AI）的进步正在从各个方面重塑患者护理，从促进更快的出院到策划治疗计划并建议改变生活方式。

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“We’re a senior-specialized behavioral health solution designed specifically to proactively engage this polychronic, aging adult population, who, by the way, are not typically seeking out behavioral health on their own,” said Ben Gardner, CEO and co-founder of Vitalic, in an interview.

Vitalic首席执行官兼联合创始人本·加德纳（BenGardner）在一次采访中表示：“我们是一个高级专业行为健康解决方案，专门设计用于积极参与这一多时性、老龄化的成年人群，顺便说一句，他们通常不会自己寻求行为健康。”。

Vitalic is entering the market with VNS Health to engage its older members in mental health support.

Vitalic正与VNS Health一起进入市场，让其老年成员参与心理健康支持。

“This partnership is very important to us because we have a big gap with our membership and their ability to deal effectively with their mental health challenges that keep them from really living the way that they could. … Our members are at the high end of multiple chronic illnesses and all kinds of other challenges,” said Dan Savitt, president and CEO of VNS Health, in an interview.

VNS health总裁兼首席执行官丹·萨维特（DanSavitt）在接受采访时表示：“这种合作关系对我们来说非常重要，因为我们与会员以及他们有效应对心理健康挑战的能力存在很大差距，这些挑战使他们无法真正过上应有的生活……我们的会员处于多种慢性疾病和各种其他挑战的高端。”。

“Right now, our focus as an organization is, how do we engage people?”.

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The $4 million in seed funding from Redesign and VNS Health will support Vitalic in three ways, according to Gardner. It is trying to prove out its outcomes, work with additional partners beyond VNS (including Medicare Advantage plans and risk-based entities), and create a replicable model.

加德纳表示，重新设计和VNS Health提供的400万美元种子资金将从三个方面支持Vitalic。它正试图证明其成果，与VNS以外的其他合作伙伴（包括医疗保险优势计划和基于风险的实体）合作，并创建一个可复制的模型。

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综合专科药房模式的未来是光明的-对于卫生系统，提供者，最重要的是对于患者。

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There are many mental health companies that exist today — including Headspace, Lyra Health and Spring Health — but there are very few that specialize in older adults. One is Author Health, but this company is more focused on serious mental illness while Vitalic is focused on mild to moderate mental illness, Gardner said. .

如今有许多心理健康公司，包括Headspace、Lyra health和Spring health，但专门针对老年人的公司却很少。Gardner说，一个是作者健康，但这家公司更专注于严重的精神疾病，而Vitalic则专注于轻度至中度的精神疾病。。

However, additional support is needed for seniors, as older adults with untreated mental health issues incur more than three times the costs of those without mental health challenges. In addition, the number of Americans aged 65 and older is expected to rise from 58 million in 2022 to 82 million in 2050..

然而，老年人需要额外的支持，因为患有未经治疗的心理健康问题的老年人的费用是没有心理健康挑战的老年人的三倍以上。此外，65岁及以上的美国人人数预计将从2022年的5800万增加到2050年的8200万。。

“We’re dealing with a growing cohort of the population,” Gardner said. “This is the highest chronicity cohort of any age group in the country. … We’re focused on this growing issue. What we’re trying to really focus on is being informed about seniors specifically and what is needed there, really getting the superpower around outreach and engagement of this population.”.

加德纳说：“我们正在处理越来越多的人口。”。“这是该国所有年龄组中慢性病发病率最高的群体……我们关注的是这个日益严重的问题。我们真正关注的是了解老年人的具体情况以及那里需要什么，真正在这一人群的宣传和参与方面获得超大力量。”。

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