Former CIO of UnitedHealthcare to Join Mental Telehealth Company AbleTo

Published on The Longevity Network on January 9 2018

Earlier this morning, mental telehealth company AbleTo announced that James P. Bradley, former CIO of UnitedHealthcare and Chairman of the National Committee for Quality Assurance, will join the company as Chairman of the Board of Directors. The company plans to use his expertise in healthcare systems and technology to help scale its teletherapy program.

“Jim is well-known for joining transformative companies and helping them solve big problems. Few problems are more pressing than the access, quality, and cost issues associated with behavioral health. Today, over 40 million people in the United States experience an unmet behavioral health need,” said Rob Rebak, President and CEO of AbleTo. “Health information technology is a fundamental part of scaling our solution, and Jim’s leadership and experience in this area will help to accelerate our growth.”

AbleTo provides virtual cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to patients with anxiety and depression through a web- and phone-based platform. The company is a digital health success story, bringing in $36.6 million in Series D funding last Augustand offering the service as a covered benefit through several major insurers.

“AbleTo is a compelling combination of a healthcare IT company and a behavioral healthcare provider organization. I was very excited about AbleTo because of the way it combines evidence-based treatment, structured data capture, and predictive analytics to develop a platform that enables insurers and employers to address unmet behavioral health needs,” said Mr. Bradley. “I am thrilled to join Rob and the rest of the team as Chairman of the Board to help build a breakout market leader in the technology, data, and analytics-enabled behavioral health space.”