Ethics/ Law

eMHIC welcomes students from Columbia University enrolled in the ‘Psychology in the United Nations’ course to participate in our global collaborative Discussion Forums. Students will gain access to the full suite of eMHIC membership benefits, and use the online Discussion Forums as part of their coursework.

In the UK, a quarter of people who take their own lives were in contact with a health professional the previous week, and most have spoken to someone within the last month. Yet assessing patient suicide risk remains extremely difficult.     There were 5,219 recorded deaths by suicide in England in 2021. While …

Ramakant Vempati, Wysa cofounder and president, discusses how the startup tests its AI-backed chatbot to monitor safety and quality.

Key Highlights: Physicians and patients are overwhelmed with the number and variety of digital health technologies coming to market. Marketing authorizations by the U.S. FDA and its European counterparts normally bear signal effects: a product has been tested in a way that it is safe and efficacious for its intended …

Adolescents are particularly vulnerable to developing mental health disorders. The COVID pandemic has added to already worrying trends in the mental health of children and young people. In our paper, we call on policymakers, health services and researchers to pay more attention to the risks of a lack of digital …

This article canvasses the landscape of digital mental health tools for young people in Aotearoa, then provides tips for practitioners wanting to support patients to use them.

Health PEI collaborates with the Mental Health Commission of Canada, Stepped Care Solutions, and Memorial University to improve access to mental health and addictions services with Stepped Care 2.0

Researchers at the Auckland New Zealand Bioengineering Institute have received over $4 million to investigate how Soul Machines Digital People could be used in monitoring people’s health and providing support in managing conditions.

In 2021, the World Economic Forum in collaboration with Deloitte produced the Global Governance Toolkit for Digital Mental Health. This white paper seeks to revisit the space and understand what has changed, what has been learned, and what is still to be done to build a regulatory environment where disruptive …

Children and teenagers affected by the conflict in Ukraine are to be given a helping hand thanks to a computer game designed to help them deal with the things they have experienced in a war zone.