Registration Is Now Open for the APEC Digital Hub for Mental Health’s Online Forum On Promoting Mental Health Equity in the Asia Pacific!
The APEC Digital Hub for Mental Health is hosting an online forum, convening expert speakers from across the APEC region. Their aim is to highlight research, innovations, and best practices that promote mental health equity, with a particular focus on the use of digital technologies in the region.
eMHIC and APEC Digital Hub for Mental Health Establish Strategic Partnership for Advancing Digital Mental Health
eMHIC and the APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) Digital Hub for Mental Health have embarked on an exciting new strategic relationship. We will collaborate on events, share resources and knowledge, and support each other’s aims. Being two peak organizations with a shared history and stakeholders in the mental health domain, we are uniquely positioned to leverage our respective strengths and expertise in advancing the digital mental health domain.
Oxehealth: A Global Leader in Vision-Based Patient Monitoring and Management
Oxevision is a tool that helps staff care for patients more safely. It has been designed specifically for mental health care and has been developed in collaboration with patients, relatives, doctors and nurses.
Introducing Medicly – The Healthy Data Exchange
We’ve seen data challenges across the healthcare sector for a long time. The reality is that health systems are complex and fragile to build and maintain. They also affect everyone across the health and social services sectors.
Announcing Ember’s “Youth Flourishing in North Auckland” Innovation Challenge
Approximately 1.25 million people in New Zealand need mental wellbeing support every year. Less than half of them are supported by public health services and registered counsellors, leaving just over 800, 000 without support. Ember Innovations is on a mission to bridge this gap.
WHO’s “Regional Framework for the Future of Mental Health in the Western Pacific 2023-2040” – Digital Mental Health Expansion as an Enabling Strategy
The Western Pacific Region faces unique challenges when addressing mental ill-health amongst its population of 215 million. Lack of access to support for remote communities and climate change worsen the situation and COVID-19 highlighted the urgent need for action. The WHO’s Regional Framework for the Future of Mental Health addresses these challenges with a strong focus on digital supports to complement care.
It’s Gen Z’s World, We’re Just Living in It: Navigating Mental Health Support in the Digital Realm
The world is changing. The rise of digital communication tools and social media has fundamentally altered the way people connect and communicate. The days of landline phone calls and handwritten letters are long gone. We now live in an era of instant connection, where our devices have become an integral part of who we are, granting us immediate access to people and information with a simple click of a button.
Rocket VR & MGH Hospital Begin Clinical Trial
At Rocket VR Health, we are transforming the mental health treatment landscape by offering the next generation of digital therapeutics by leveraging proven clinical programs and ultra-realistic 3D environments, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) games, and VR-enhanced meditations.
Hope Away from Home: Advancing Digital Mental Health Interventions for Refugees and Marginalized Groups
The 20th of June was World Refugee Day, reminding us that almost 110 million people all over the world have been forced to flee their homes because of war, violence, conflict, or persecution, the highest number ever recorded. This year’s theme is “Hope away from home”, focusing on the inclusion of refugees in their new locations. An important aspect of inclusion is the possibility to receive help to alleviate suffering from mental health problems.
Making The MOST Of Most
COVID-19 forced health authorities to investigate how to deliver healthcare, including mental health care, differently. MOST (formerly Moderated Online Social Therapy) is a free digital mental health service for young Australians aged 12 to 25 provides access to self-directed therapeutic content, a safe moderated online community, peer workers, careers counselling and one-on-one clinical support.
