Talkspace is an online and mobile therapy firm located in New York, established in 2012 by Oren and a software developer Roni Frank. The company started as a therapy group platform, but it has expanded its services currently offering online psychotherapy services from its licensed therapist. In 2014, Talkspace launched unlimited messaging therapy, improving client’s communication with the licensed therapist. The platform also enables clients and therapist to send audio and video messages. Talkspace company has hired Agora.io, a provider of HIPAA compliant video services to host their Live Video programs. Watch on Youtube.
Improving and delivering standard services in time which fits clients’ needs remains Talkspace top priority. To ensure the company achieved this, they hired a chief medical officer, Neil Leibowitz, a former senior medical director at UnitedHealth. Neil Leibowitz main role according to the company`s CEO is to prescribe medications through the app to the users. The company admitted that it has approximately one million users who are paying for online therapy services. According to Oren Frank, Talkspace generates over ten million dollars’ revenue to the government, quoted as he was telling CNBC.
Leibowitz admits that working at Talkspace at first appeared unimaginable as the company represented a different and new thing to the society but after learning their team and understanding their products he felts the need to be part of this charge and assist in delivering the company`s vision. He was also motivated by the efforts Talkspace was putting in place ensuring that therapy services were affordable to everyone who had internet connection as many rural areas have poor access to mental health workers.
In social media such as in Twitter, Oren Frank is an active participant. He mostly utilizes Twitter as a medium of enlightening people. His latest twits include the one advising media how to identify and respond to Trump’s lies. View: https://www.talkspace.com/online-therapy/reshaping-behavioral-health-2017/oren-frank-intro-presentation/