What you’ll get out of this episode

Cohost Rebecca Gwilt elbowed her way this week through the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, and NPR to get an interview with Dr. Tom Insel, a national leader in mental health research, policy, and technology. (Don’t get between Rebecca and an insightful guest!)

His hotly anticipated forthcoming book, Healing: Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health, gets high praise from bestselling authors like Michael Pollan and even former First Lady Rosalynn Carter.

You’ll want to read it yourself when it publishes on February 22, 2022. And you’ll also want to hear what Dr. Insel has to say in this episode about the coming evolution of telemental health.

You’ll discover:

• What opportunities exist for digital health companies to increase engagement in mental healthcare 
• How to use the latest technology tools to increase the quality of mental health care (and training)
• What value-based mental health care can and should look like

If you’re a mental health advocate, a healthcare provider, a digital health innovator, or a healthcare payor or platform operator, you’ll want to pay special attention to this insightful conversation.

About Thomas Insel, MD

Tom lnsel, M.D., a psychiatrist and neuroscientist, has been a national leader in mental health research, policy, and technology. From 2002-2015, Dr. Insel served as Director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). More recently (2015 – 2017), he led the Mental Health Team at Verily (formerly Google Life Sciences) in South San Francisco, CA. In 2017 he co-founded Mindstrong Health, a Silicon Valley start-up building tools for people with serious mental illness. 

In 2020, he co-founded Humanest Care, a therapeutic online community for recovery. Since May of 2019, Dr. Insel has been a special advisor to California Governor Gavin Newsom and Chair of the Board of the Steinberg Institute in Sacramento, California. He is the author of the forthcoming book Healing: Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health, to be published by Penguin Random House. With journalist co-founders, he recently launched MindSite News (mindsitenews.org), a non-profit digital publication focused on mental health issues. Dr. Insel is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and has received numerous national and international awards including honorary degrees in the U.S. and Europe.

Quotables

“The big question is, are they changing outcomes?” @thomasinselmd on telemental health services on @Ep19 @DecodingHealth1 w @NixonGwitlLaw https://sliceofhealthcare.com/category/decoding-healthcare-innovation/ 

“It’s not an access problem; it’s an engagement problem..and I don’t know that we’ve solved the engagement problem.” @thomasinselmd on Ep19 @DecodingHealth1 w @NixonGwitlLaw https://sliceofhealthcare.com/category/decoding-healthcare-innovation/ 

“The question in 2022 is, has all of this investment altered outcomes at a population level?” @thomasinselmd on Ep19 @DecodingHealth1 w @NixonGwiltLaw https://sliceofhealthcare.com/category/decoding-healthcare-innovation/ 

Recommended Resources

• Follow Dr. Insel on