Via JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF Health

Russell Glass, CEO of Headspace Health, said the merger of equals between on-demand mental health care provider Ginger and consumer meditation app Headspace is “merging the J-curve” and this 30-minute monster chat begins an upward trajectory into the how and why.

We started talking about the company’s recent acquisition of chatbot-based self-care app Sayana, but quickly moved on to the integration of Headspace and Ginger, and bringing those products together after three months of operation. All 900 employees have rolled out a comprehensive vision and set of values, and Russ says its enterprise customers (now 3,500) are just weeks away from getting a fully integrated platform that attests to reports from Headspace and Ginger, Allows initiation from a single qualification file and provides communication across two service lines.

What’s the “extra” in all of this – let’s really see where Headspace Health is headed in positioning itself as a health plan and employer as the top of the Lyra Health / Quartet Health / Modern Health package – when Russ The description comes when the company’s partnership with Blue Shield of California 15:25– Minute markers. Members of the program can now access Headspace Health’s full range of services (from meditation to therapy) through Blue Shield of California’s Wellvolution platform, which offers smart intake, smart patient routing, continuous measurement and adjustment services, and help certify-as-you-go The relationship between mental health care and lower downstream health care costs over time. As Russ puts it, “All of this is part of a long-term vision of what this might mean for the wider population, not just those who may need acute care, but to consider the population as a whole and how to reduce costs by Smart ways to manage behavioral health to access healthcare.”

The big finale of this BIG conversation is Russ’ outlook for Headspace Health and the digital mental health care market in 2022. Tune in at around 20 minutes to start the session with my never-answered IPO question, then a lot of details about Headspace Health looking to acquire and expand, what he thinks the mental health-care headlines will be this year, and which patient groups Will rise to peak needs in mental health care.