eMHIC’s Recent Roundtable Events: A Compelling Overview

eMHIC’s Executive Director, Professor Anil Thapliyal has recently completed an extensive international trip which included Canada and the U.S. where he co-hosted three incredibly successful Roundtable events filled with inspiring conversations and an invaluable exchange of resources and insights.

Digital Futures in Mind: Why Lived Experience Collaboration Must Guide Digital Mental Health Technologies

This paper provides a commentary emerging from work by authors with lived experience, and those without, that explored accountability in digital mental health technologies and services. The commentary offers guidance to anyone interested in supporting lived experience-led, and collaborative governance of, digital mental health technologies. This guidance, drawing on interdisciplinary and lived experience-led research and grey literature, assists readers in understanding why collaboration should take place, when, where and with whom, on what issues this could start, and how collaborators should approach this.

Valentia Technologies: Leading Digital Mental Health

At Valentia Technologies, we are transforming the landscape of digital mental health across New Zealand. Our commitment is to harness technology to make telehealth more accessible, effective, and personalised for everyone. Whether it’s a simple check-in or a complex health intervention, our advanced platform offers a seamless, secure, and comprehensive solution for modern telehealth needs.

eMHIC’s Professor Anil Thapliyal Visits Sendai, Japan, the Birthplace of The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction

On his recent travels to Japan, eMHIC’s Executive Director, Professor Anil Thapliyal, was invited by Dr Hiroto Ito to visit the Faculty of Medicine at Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University in Sendai. In 2011, as the world watched on helplessly, a powerful tsunami hit Sendai, decimating villages, homes, and businesses and claiming many lives. Residents had only an eight-minute warning to evacuate. The official figures, released in 2021, reported 19,759 deaths, 6,242 injured, and 2,553 people missing. A 2015 report indicated 228,863 people were still living away from their homes in temporary housing or had been forced, by the situation, to relocate permanently.

From Chaos to Order – Transforming Mental Health for Veterans Leveraging Digital Technologies

In this webinar, VAC officials share information about the population they serve; how they ensure the delivery of mental health services virtually; ways they’re facilitating non-invasive emerging therapies; the mental health apps they offer to support self-directed care; how they’re measuring effectiveness of care with digital tools; and ways they’re looking at filling gaps in the continuum of service.

Improving Workplace Culture: The Role of Therapy Outcome Monitoring in Reducing Burnout

Let’s set the stage, shall we? Imagine you’re a healthcare professional, committed to promoting wellness and improving lives. Day in, day out, you’re on the frontlines, carrying the weight of others’ ailments on your shoulders and relentlessly pushing yourself to do more and be more. Sound familiar? If so, you’re not alone. However, this incessant drive can lead to burnout—a state of mental, physical, and emotional exhaustion that’s all too common in the healthcare sector.