Congress Presentations

On day 2 of the eMHIC Congress 2021, Alexander Dalton, Public Speaker, Mental Health Advocate and LGBTQ+ Rights Activist, from Melbourne, Australia gave a keynote speech on “Digital mental health, social media and help seeking”.

This presentation elaborates on the importance of innovation when it comes to digital mental health, and how Ember Innovations are changing the way that we innovate for mental wellbeing.

The Digital Mental Health and Addiction Tools (DMHAT) Evaluation Framework and Accreditation Pathway aims to provide guidance for users, clinicians, commissioners, and developers when navigating the many available digital mental health products available on the market.

In this presentation, three international experts from Canada and New Zealand describe their approaches to implementing digital mental health solutions for the workplace.

In this keynote address, Liz Ashall-Payne (CEO, ORCHA [The Organisation for the Review of Care and Health Applications]) discusses the new era of accreditation and activation to support the digital patient.

In this presentation, Sapna Mahajan outlines the importance of maintaining and supporting mental health, overcoming stigma, and ensuring psychological safety in the workplace.

In this presentation, Andy Ellis and Rachael Reeves discuss “Small Steps”, a digital mental health tool developed by Rachael and the Clearhead group with the intention of enabling digital autonomy and increasing peoples’ access to mental health care.

At eMHIC’s Congress Colloquium in November 2021, Dr Yuri Quintana, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA spoke on approaches developed to reliably evaluate eMental Health, ways to scale up eMental Health solutions and a methodology for co-creation.

In this presentation, Piers Gooding, Richman Wee and Nick Titov outline and discuss their drafted position statement on the ethics and law of eMental health. In its early stages, this position statement aims to pave the way for future discussion of the ethics and laws governing the eMental Health space.

Dr. Lyndy Matthews (Clinical Director, Pathways NZ and Clinical Lead, Whakarongorau, New Zealand), and Lisa Toi (Senior Manager, Francis Health, New Zealand) spend their time at the eMHIC congress discussing the development of WAKA — a digital self-management tool for New Zealanders with schizophrenia.