Category: Digital Tools and Solutions
Q&A: Integrating Digital Health Apps Into Clinical Care
After nearly 25 years at Kaiser Permanente, Trina Histon recently took on a new challenge at Woebot Health, the company behind a chatbot for mental healthcare.
Gen Z Mental Health: The Impact of Tech and Social Media
A new McKinsey Health Institute survey finds that Gen Z’s social media engagement can feel negative but can also help with finding mental health support and connectivity.
New Tech Platform To Revolutionise Psychiatric Care
Carle Illinois College of Medicine (CI MED) student, Aditya Vaidyam, together with a team at Harvard University, have developed a new technology platform to make mental health care available whenever and wherever it’s needed most. The platform is called Learn,
Digital Mental Health Interventions for Young People in Rural South Africa: Prospects and Challenges for Implementation
The growing access to mobile devices in South Africa has the potential to increase access to mental health care services through digital platforms. However, uptake of digital mental health interventions may be hampered by several factors, such as privacy, confidentiality,
VR Therapy? Why It Isn’t Used More And What Lies Ahead
The conversation around VR use for treating mental ill health has been longstanding but the introduction of modern, home-accessible products like VR headsets has turbo-charged the discourse. VR use in treating phobias and anxiety allows users to encounter their fears
Digital Technology As Effective And Efficient Tools To Improve Mental Health Care in APAC region
A report from KPMG covering the “rising social and economic cost of major depression” highlights the opportunity for mental healthcare to fully engage with evidence-based digital tools. As the world struggles to keep up with advances in digital technology, it
GoMo Health Leads the Way with Digital Therapeutics
GoMo Health was established in 2013. Leveraging years of applied research in the “digital-to-human” behavioral and cognitive science of human motivation, activation, and resiliency, Bob Gold, Chief Behavioral Technologist and Founder began applying BehavioralRx®, his (then) emerging digital therapeutic engagement
Finding Purpose: Get Into The Thick Of It With Our (Virtual) Journey Through An Island Of Self-introspection
Clearhead has just launched their new tool Finding Purpose with support from the nib Foundation: a free, interactive digital tool designed to help young people develop a greater sense of purpose and identity to improve their mental wellbeing.
Digital Mental Health Tech for Children and Young People Recommended by Nice in First Rapid Healthtech Guidance
Four digital technologies that can help children and young people with mild to moderate symptoms of anxiety or low mood have been recommended for use in the NHS once they achieve regulatory approval.
‘There’s a Sense of Urgency’: How Wearables Could Reshape Addiction Treatment
Wearables offer addiction treatment providers tantalizing opportunities to improve care outcomes. […] But there’s a serious problem. Researchers and practitioners still need to figure out what to do with the mountains of data that wearables could produce.
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