Thought Leadership

Human-computer interaction involves the design and development of computer technology with a focus on facilitating its use from accumulated influences. HCI also offers the implementation and evaluation of technologies with an importance on user experience.

Summary: The New Zealand Digital Health Association (DHA) is a not-for-profit group dedicated to championing digital technology in healthcare throughout New Zealand.A special interest group within DHA was established to focus specifically on mental health, addiction and well-being: the Digital Wellbeing Industry Group (DWIG), chaired by eMHIC Global Leadership Council member …

Policy-makers in the EU are promoting an array of digital health programs, such as the European Health Data Space unveiled earlier this month. But lack of awareness and knowledge could stymy their impact.

This article critically examines how technology-mediated forms of mental health care might amplify historical injustices, and erase minoritized experiences and expressions of mental distress and illness. The article dissects the impacts of colonization, and makes recommendations for more equitable futures.

Geoffrey Boyce describes the gaps that digital mental health approaches can fill, and why its importance should extend beyond the pandemic and have a permanent place in mental health strategy.

One of the most dominant areas of demand for telehealth is mental health. Personal Collective Health Alliance Managing Director Rob Havasy and Cloudbreak Health CEO Jamey Edwards […] discuss the perils and potential of virtual care for behavioral health.

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.

With a standard scientific information database like PubMed, even an unrefined set of search terms like “AI” or “artificial intelligence” or “machine learning” in combination with “mental health” or “psychiatry” will yield an increasing number of “hits” for publications involving humans.

The World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Mental Health partnered with Scientific American to select the ten innovations doing the most to create a better world for everyone suffering from mental ill-health.

In this webinar, internationally recognized subject matter experts on mindfulness from Singapore, Australia and New Zealand discuss how we can tap into mindfulness in our personal lives, schooling and education systems, workplaces and primary care.