About Connected Mind

The Problem We Solve

The majority of mental health conditions are first identified in primary care — not by psychiatrists or psychologists. A World Health Organization study of 1,146 patients across 14 countries found that 69% of patients who met criteria for depression reported only physical symptoms as the reason for their visit — headaches, fatigue, back pain, gastrointestinal problems.¹ These patients don’t know they have a mental health condition. Their provider suspects something deeper but has almost no tools to find it.

The stakes are life and death. A systematic review of 40 studies published in the American Journal of Psychiatry found that 45% of individuals who died by suicide had contact with a primary care provider within one month of their death — and over 75% within the prior year.² Primary care is often the last point of contact. Yet the standard protocol is a PHQ-9 for depression and sometimes a GAD-7 for anxiety — two single-condition instruments that miss everything else.

That means ADHD goes undetected. Bipolar disorder gets misidentified as unipolar depression. Substance use is never asked about. A 2024 study of 2.2 million primary care patients over 14 years found that 96% of all mental-disorder and physical-health condition pairs showed significant co-occurrence — yet the standard approach still looks for one condition at a time.³ The result: providers are making decisions based on incomplete information.

Connected Mind was built to solve both problems. Instead of asking providers to choose a single screening tool and hope it catches what matters, Connected Mind screens for six conditions simultaneously in approximately one minute. When any condition screens positive, targeted Standardized Assessment Modules (SAMs) launch automatically — taking the patient from screening to confirmatory assessment in one seamless encounter. No referral. No second visit. No patient lost to follow-up.

Connected Mind was built to both screen and test — making it practical for primary care practices to implement meaningful mental health workflows without disrupting the visit, adding staff, or sending patients elsewhere.