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Healthcare Business Today: The Rise of Self-Diagnosis Signals a Bigger System Failure
July 14, 2025
Acuity Behavioral Health CEO, Jim Szyperski, shares his perspective on how scarcity of mental health resources leads to self-diagnosis and self-treatment in the age of social media, and how putting the right technology in the hands of clinicians is a better solution to deliver the right care, in the right time and in the right setting.
Healthcare’s Big Blind Spot: The Measurement Crisis in Inpatient Psychiatry
June 19, 2025
Acuity Behavioral Health CEO, Jim Szyperski, shares his thoughts on dangerous blind spot for short-term acute care and behavioral health hospitals providing inpatient services that can negatively impact patient care, safety, staff retention, and financial viability of continued operations. It's a problem, not just for psychiatric units, but for the entire healthcare system, and it can no longer be ignored.
Pulse 2.0 - Acuity Behavioral Health: Interview With CEO Jim Szyperski About The Clinical Operations System Company
June 16, 2025
Pulse 2.0 interviewed Acuity Behavioral Health CEO Jim Szyperski to gain a deeper understanding of the company and the Behavioral Health Intelligence Platform (BHOI), a clinical operations system that incorporates a comprehensive measurement of patient acuity with AI to enhance the care and safety of patients and staff within inpatient psychiatric settings.
From Gut Instinct to Data-Driven Psychiatric Care: Why It’s Time for a Tech Overhaul
May 28, 2025
Despite growing attention to mental health, inpatient psychiatric care remains a neglected and the least digitized sector of healthcare. While hospitals have made enormous strides in optimizing emergency departments, operating rooms, and ICUs with real-time data, the same cannot be said for behavioral health units. Acuity Behavioral Health's CEO Jim Szyperski shines a light on the technology needed to transform inpatient psychiatric care from the dark ages to the modern healthcare world.
Jim Szyperski on Transforming Behavioral Health Through Tech Innovation
April 25, 2025
In this episode of The Digital Executive, Brian Thomas sits down with Jim Szyperski, a veteran entrepreneur and the co-founder and CEO of Acuity Behavioral Health. With over 30 years of leadership experience in technology across various industries, Jim shares the personal journey that led him to focus on mental health care—and the pressing challenges the field faces today, from clinician shortages to fragmented care systems.
Acuity Behavioral Health Discusses Psychiatric Care Innovation with Unite AI
April 24, 2025
Acuity's CEO Jim Szyperski sat down with Antoine Tardif, Editor of Unite AI, to introduce behavioral health intelligence operations (BHOI) as the new and long overdue industry category that is set to transform inpatient psychiatric care through data-driven staffing and resource optimization.
Future Healthcare Today Publishes Acuity Byline on Data-Driven Psychiatry
April 21, 2025
Acuity shared insights in Future Healthcare Today about transforming psychiatric care from instinct-led to data-informed, reflecting the broader push for tech-forward mental health systems.
Hypepotamus Mentions Acuity in Weekly Roundup
April 11, 2025
Acuity Behavioral Health was spotlighted in Hypepotamus’ “Friday Fund Day,” a weekly roundup featuring startups making notable strides in innovation, growth, and impact across the tech landscape.
Hypepotamus Features Acuity’s $1.5M Raise for AI Mental Health Tech
April 7, 2025
The sheer number of Americans seeking out mental, behavioral, and psychiatric health support just keeps rising. And yet, the workforce and the technology needed just isn’t keeping pace, says Atlanta entrepreneur Jim Szyperski...
As Demand for Behavioral Health Services Surges, Atlanta’s Acuity Raises $1.5M to Bring AI-Powered Clinical Support to Hospitals
April 7, 2025
The sheer number of Americans seeking out mental, behavioral, and psychiatric health support just keeps rising. And yet, the workforce and the technology needed just isn’t keeping pace, says Atlanta entrepreneur Jim Szyperski...
WSJ VC Health Pulse Mentions Acuity's Impact in Digital Mental Health
April 3, 2025
Acuity Behavioral Health was featured in WSJ’s VC Health Pulse, spotlighting its AI-powered approach to advancing psychiatric care across the U.S.
Fortune Term Sheet Highlights Acuity's Milestone
April 3, 2025
Fortune’s Term Sheet covered Acuity’s funding news, emphasising its commitment to data-driven innovations in behavioural healthcare.
Acuity Gains Mentioned in Axios Pro Rata Newsletter
April 2, 2025
Axios Pro Rata’s newsletter featured Acuity among leading startups shaping the digital mental health space, emphasising its growing impact on hospital systems.
Axios Pro Deals Mentions Acuity in First Look Report
April 1, 2025
Acuity was highlighted in Axios Pro Deals’ First Look for its contributions to innovation in behavioural health tech. The mention further signals investor interest in scalable, AI-driven mental health care.
Read more about this article >Fortune Term Sheet Highlights Acuity's Milestone
April 1, 2025
Acuity Behavioral Health today announced its official launch, pioneering a new category in healthcare: Behavioral Health Operations Intelligence (BHOI). Built in collaboration with 11 leading health systems, including Yale New Haven Health, Acuity's platform provides a real-time, AI-driven framework for standardizing, measuring, and optimizing inpatient psychiatric care-a field long plagued by inefficiencies, staffing shortages, and a lack of clinical standards...
Read more about this article >Valor Ventures Leads Seed Financing for Acuity Behavioral Health
February 18, 2025
Acuity Behavioral Health (Acuity) has successfully secured seed financing to accelerate its growth and innovation, as well as support and expand Acuity's ongoing mission to improve the quality of care in inpatient psychiatric and behavioral healthcare..
Read more about this article >Acuity Behavioral Health to Examine Clinical Impact of the BHAI on Yale New Haven Health's Inpatient Psychiatric Operations, Workflows and Outcomes
February 5, 2025
We are delighted to announce the implementation of our Behavioral Health Acuity Index (BHAI) at Yale New Haven Health. In collaboration with the incredible team at Yale New Haven, we will launch the next study phase of our ongoing validation of the BHAI as the industry standard measurement of patient acuity for inpatient psychiatric facilities. Another big step to further our mission to better the care and safety of patients, and the heroic nurses and staff who treat them.
Read more about this article > Clinical Validation of our Behavioral Health Acuity Index
September 9, 2024
The clinical validation of our Behavioral Health Acuity Index (NEAT or BHAI) is a major milestone in our mission to fix a failing state of behavioral healthcare operations. Thank you to our health system design and equity partners who have helped us get here.
View the results of the study > Tanner Health and Healthliant Ventures Partner With Acuity Behavioral Health for Inpatient Operations
June 11, 2024
Tanner Health, Healthliant Ventures and Acuity Behavioral Health announced they have entered into an agreement for Tanner to deploy Acuity’s Behavioral Health Acuity Index (BHAI) product, a patient acuity and workload measurement solution, for their 92-bed Willowbrooke at Tanner in-patient psychiatric facility located in Villa Rica, Georgia.
Read more about this article > Acuity Behavioral Health Completes Initial Product Validation
May 13, 2024
Acuity Behavioral Health’s proprietary patient acuity and workload measurement model, the BHAI, is validated for system accuracy and nurse staffing
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Pine Rest Christian Mental Health Services deploys Acuity Behavioral Health’s Patient Acuity Solution
July 12, 2023
Software company implements proprietary patient acuity and workload measurement solution at Pine Rest for use in their inpatient psychiatric units.
Acuity Behavioral Health and Cone Health enter into a Multi-Year License Agreement
May 31, 2023
Software company implements proprietary patient acuity and workload measurement solution at Cone Health for use in their inpatient psychiatric units.