Healthcare has weathered regulation waves before. HIPAA, HITECH, interoperability mandates, and price transparency rules all arrived with uncertainty, and each reshaped the industry for the better.

AI is next on that horizon – and the implications for health plans are both significant and imminent.

That’s particularly true for behavioral health programs, where the maturity of analytics simply isn’t on par with the rest of medicine . Health plans can model physical health outcomes; they can predict complications and costs well before they occur, with incredible precision. In behavioral health, however, those same analytical tools often fall short. That’s because behavioral health and physical health data are often siloed, risk models haven’t been trained to factor in the imp

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