Topic: General Mental Health & Wellbeing
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
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
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.
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.
FTC Steps Up Scrutiny of Digital Health Apps With Proposed Changes to Data Privacy Rule
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in the US is tightening the reins on digital health apps sharing consumers’ sensitive medical data with tech companies.
APEC Digital Hub for Mental Health: Coordinating Center for Mental Health in the Asia Pacific Region
The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Digital Hub for Mental Health (‘the Digital Hub’) acts as the coordinating centre for mental health in APEC, which is made up of 21 member economies across the Asia Pacific region. The Digital Hub
Generative AI Could Help Solve the U.S. Mental Health Crisis
The app-based chatbot released in December immediately popularized generative AI. Generative AI analyzes patterns in written words from across the web, forming complex mathematical and computational formulations, to produce human-like text. With its dizzying number of potential uses and user
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