With the rise of EHRs in last couple of decades, behavioral health segment has seen a rapid growth of digital technologies and associated features like standard registration, session scheduling, basic progress notes and clinical charting, medication tracking, eRx orders, bill generation and claims submissions. 

Some of the advanced functions involve supporting assessment notes, comprehensive treatment plans, clinical decision support and integrated interfaces with labs, pharmacy, automated reminders, chat bots and automated reports from patient CRFs.

Due to the pandemic the demand for virtual behavioral health counselling services has also seen a growth. Some of the key trends in this segment seen are -

• Rise of meditation and calming apps within Digital Direct to Consumer category
• More and more US Employers are finding ways to track and monitor the impact of Covid 19 and anticipating Employee Assistance Program (EAP) benefits adjustments
• Tele health adoption in psychiatry and therapy has seen a major rise
• More and more focus will be towards enhancing consumer experience, by bringing advanced patient centric tools
• Adoption of patient self-care apps are treated as an effective adjunct to treatment
• Patient informative apps to manage patient illnesses are also on the rise
• Data driven insights based on AI/ML will be adopted to build some of the decision-support apps providing personalized care experience
• Integration of Value based care reimbursements will be seen in the tele health care delivery workflows 

The World Health Organization estimates that depression, anxiety disorders, and other conditions cost the global economy $1 trillion per year in lost productivity.

The global behavioral health care software and services market size was valued at USD 2.1 billion in 2019 and is expected to expand at a CAGR of 11.1% over the forecast period.

Source: Grandview Research