Why Mental Health Is the Biggest Hidden Cost in Healthcare | Nawal Roy

About this episode

Nawal Roy discusses the impact of mental health on healthcare costs and how data is changing the understanding and treatment of mental health issues.

Mental health isn’t just a personal issue — it’s one of the largest drivers of healthcare cost, performance, and overall well-being. In this episode of Healthy Team Healthy Business, we sit down with Nawal Roy, Founder & CEO of Holmusk, to explore how data is transforming the way we understand and treat mental health. Nawal shares how his company has built one of the largest mental health datasets in the world — and why the current system is failing to properly address the problem. In thi...

People in this episode

Hosts: Josh Phelps, David Kent

Guest: Nawal Roy

Topics covered

• mental health
• healthcare costs
• data transformation
• well-being
• performance

Keywords

• mental health
• healthcare
• data
• Holmusk
• well-being
• costs
• performance

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Holmusk

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