Think of mental and behavioral health, and perhaps therapy and specialized clinics will come to mind. The reality, though, says Rose Health CEO Kavi Misri, is that it’s often primary care doctors who are the “first and only line of defense when it comes to mental health.”

“A lot of people don’t have the access to a behavioral health clinic, and they rely on that primary doctor for help,” Misri said. “But these primary care doctors, they don’t have the tools, they don’t have the skillset. They do have the will and wherewithal to prescribe antidepressants, but they don’t have the means to provide therapy.”

Rose Health offers digital therapy tools to help expand that access, and help patients build resilience, Misri said. Rose’s technology uses natural language processing to detect “warning markers” in questionnaire answers and journal entries. This produces a Rose score assessing what could be early warning signs of depression, or mood disorder. Misri likens this to a credit score.

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