The APEC Digital Hub for Mental Health: Cross-Regional Collaboration to Promote Digital Mental Health Equity
The importance of promoting mental health and providing timely evidence-based care for people suffering from mental health conditions has perhaps never been so well recognized. Along with its many unprecedented challenges, the emotional toll of the COVID-19 pandemic has raised awareness about psychological distress and has catalyzed open discussions about mental health and well-being globally.
Technology That Cares: A Glimpse Into the Future of Mental Healthcare
About the Webinar: The field of mental healthcare is undergoing a seismic shift, and the possibilities are mind-bending. Imagine a world where Virtual Reality (VR) and gaming become powerful tools in treating mental health conditions, enabling patients to step into immersive, therapeutic environments that provide new avenues for healing and self-discovery. Picture Artificial Intelligence […]
MOHT’s Digital Innovations Reshape Singapore’s Mental Healthcare Landscape
MOH Office for Healthcare Transformation (MOHT) is an innovation office established by the Ministry Of Health (MOH) in 2018 to lead, facilitate and accelerate system-level changes needed to transform healthcare delivery and the empowerment of health and self-management of disease.
Engage Patients With Immersive VR Technology
Gita Barry, president of immersive healthcare at Penumbra, discusses the uses of immersive VR technology for therapy in healthcare settings and at home, and its potential to engage patients and employees.
Immersive VR Headsets to Improve Mental Health Services
£3 million has been funded toward projects generating immersive VR headsets for mental health therapeutics across the UK
Mental health problems are experienced by one in four people each year in the UK, but only one in eight adults with a mental health problem are currently getting any kind of treatment.
The Startup That Hopes Your Doctor May One Day Prescribe You a Video Game
Play can be therapeutic. But can you dare to imagine a future where gaming is just what the doctor literally ordered?
It’s a future that DeepWell DTx is on a mission to secure. The company, which is still in its very early days, is a few things at once.
Q&A: The Potential Implications of AI on Healthcare Disparities
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted disparities in healthcare throughout the U.S. over the past several years. Now, with the rise of AI, experts are warning developers to remain cautious while implementing models to ensure those inequities are not exacerbated.
Can A.I. Treat Mental Illness?
In the nineteen-sixties, Joseph Weizenbaum, a computer scientist at M.I.T., created a computer program called Eliza. It was designed to simulate Rogerian therapy, in which the patient directs the conversation and the therapist often repeats her language back to her.
Perinatal Mental Health Gets XR Treatment in New Training Programme
England has become the first country in the world to launch clinical training in perinatal mental health using extended reality (XR) technology.
XRHealth and Amelia Virtual Care Announce Merger, Creating the Largest XR Therapeutics Platform in the World
Both Companies will Be merged Under the XRHealth Brand Name and By the End of the Year Are Forecasted to Have over 500K VR Treatments, Exceed 25K Patients Treated, and Be Deployed by Over 2500 Clinicians.
