Mental & Behavioral HealthTech Award
Innovating for Healthier Minds and Stronger Communities
The HealthTechNode Mental & Behavioral HealthTech Award recognizes technologies, platforms, and care models that improve access, support, and outcomes in mental and behavioral health. This award honors innovations that help patients, providers, caregivers, and communities address mental health needs through better engagement, earlier intervention, stronger continuity, and more effective care delivery.
Why This Award Matters
Mental and behavioral health challenges affect individuals, families, care systems, and communities on a broad scale. Technology can play an important role in expanding access, reducing barriers, supporting clinicians, improving engagement, and helping people receive care in more timely and effective ways. This award highlights the innovations making mental and behavioral healthcare more connected, accessible, and impactful.
Who Should Apply
- Digital health companies building solutions for mental health, behavioral health, or emotional wellbeing
- Platforms supporting therapy, psychiatry, screening, engagement, monitoring, or care coordination
- Organizations improving access to behavioral health services across clinical, virtual, workplace, or community settings
- Innovators using technology to support prevention, early intervention, treatment, or long-term mental health management
- Teams helping providers, care teams, or health systems deliver better behavioral health support
- Solutions demonstrating measurable value for patients, clinicians, organizations, or communities
Judging Criteria
- Demonstrated value in improving access, engagement, outcomes, or continuity in mental and behavioral healthcare
- Strength of the innovation, usability, and practical implementation approach
- Evidence of measurable impact, adoption, patient benefit, or care improvement
- Ability to support real-world delivery across behavioral health settings or populations
- Clarity of differentiation within the mental and behavioral health technology landscape
Benefits of Winning
- Recognition as a leader in mental and behavioral health innovation
- Third-party validation of your solution’s value, impact, and healthcare relevance
- Greater visibility among providers, partners, employers, payers, and health technology stakeholders
- Winners assets for use across marketing, PR, sales, and brand communications
- Inclusion in official HealthTechNode winners coverage and supporting promotional materials
Current Program
The current Mental & Behavioral HealthTech Award cycle is featured on the 2026 award page, where you can review this year’s entry schedule, fees, eligibility, and submission details. If you are ready to participate, visit the application page for the active cycle.
Ready to explore this year’s award? Visit the current award page for the latest schedule, entry fees, and application details.
Questions? Contact awards@healthtechnode.com
Submission Guidelines
- Eligibility: Open to companies, startups, products, platforms, and individuals making an impact in healthcare technology.
- Requirements:
- 250-word narrative highlighting achievements and innovation.
- High-resolution logo and at least one image of the solution (product photo, screenshot, or device image).
- Customer/client identity must be included. If you wish to withhold this from public release, notify us in writing at the time of submission.
- Fees: A submission fee applies per category. See this award’s page for pricing.
- Evaluation: Judged on innovation, clinical impact, scalability, design, and contribution to healthcare technology.
- Multiple Submissions: You may enter more than one category.
- Award Timing: Winners announced within 60 days of final submission deadline.
- Contact: For questions, email awards@healthtechnode.com.
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Beneftis of Winning
Celebrating Success: Benefits of Winning a HealthTechNode Award
Winning a HealthTechNode Award is more than recognition. It is a strong third-party signal of innovation, impact, and market relevance in health technology. As a winner, you receive benefits that can help extend visibility, credibility, and momentum across the industry:
1. Official HealthTechNode Recognition
Your company, solution, or achievement will be featured in official HealthTechNode winners coverage, including a dedicated winners page and newsroom announcement.
2. Winner Badge and Promotional Assets
Winners receive official digital assets, including a category-specific award badge and supporting creative for use across websites, marketing materials, sales collateral, and social media.
3. Increased Visibility and Credibility
Winning helps strengthen your positioning with customers, partners, stakeholders, and industry audiences by providing independent recognition of your work and its impact.
4. Inclusion in the HealthTechNode Winners Archive
Your recognition will be featured on the HealthTechNode winners page, creating a lasting record of your achievement and making it easier for audiences to discover your work over time.
5. Added Value for PR and Brand Communications
Winners can incorporate their recognition into press materials, social posts, website updates, customer communications, and broader brand storytelling following the public announcement.