, /PRNewswire/ -- , a leader in AI-powered actionable conversation analytics specializing in healthcare, life sciences, and client services, today announced it has received a highly competitive for its transformative project " ." NIH, the nation's medical research agency, offers SBIR grants to innovative small healthcare and life sciences businesses to perform research and development to make medical breakthroughs that can be deployed to the masses. This grant will fund the expansion of mpathic's generative AI tools to facilitate cultural attunement between mental health providers and patients, bridge the gap in mental healthcare for underserved racial and ethnic populations, and potentially improve therapeutic outcomes and patient satisfaction.
America's mental healthcare system is failing people of color. of mental illness compared to white and privileged communities. Marginalized communities are also , less likely to find or access high-quality care, and less likely to finish treatment, with 30-57% of patients prematurely leaving.
These same communities often feel that mental health clinicians lack - where a clinician is understanding and responsive to the intersection of societal context, culture, and power of the patient's lived experience, and are ill-equipped to respond to their mental health needs in an empathetic and affirming manner. Cultural attunement has been shown to be the driving factor that retains racial and ethnic minorities in mental healthcare. Many digit.
