Evaluating Apps- The American Psychiatric Association​ Model
How do you know what a good app is? Great strides have been made in guiding consumers, employers, and health systems in making better decisions when choosing digital mental health…
Digital Interventions for Depression and Anxiety- Real World Implementation
Digital mental health solutions have been growing in the past few years, over 10,000 mental health apps can be found on the app store. The current pandemic has offered…
Connected Digital Tools in Clinical Research- The Uptick?
For quantified selfers, leveraging sensors and devices via apps to track health and wellness goals is now second nature. Elite athletes leverage these tools to push for peak performance.…
Digital Mental Health and COVID-19- Access, Quality & Acceleration
As you read this week's blog, you may be at home, hunkered down as the World deals with the COVID-19 pandemic. It is a rare moment when the globe is…
Real World Evidence -The Challenges for Digital Health
The gold standard for clinical trials is a randomized controlled trial design (RCT)- here, control and treatment groups are compared while all else is held equal to determine if…
Digital Health in 2020 Trends and Wishlists
The last decade saw tremendous development in digital health. With the growing penetration of smartphone ownership globally, having tools at your fingertips to support health and wellness is commonplace.…
Addressing Youth Mental Health with Digital Tools- Some Considerations
Estimates suggest 1.1 billion people worldwide suffer from mental health disorders. Depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, and substance use are the leading causes of disability amongst working-age adults. Many of these disorders…
Digital Health- “fail early, fail often” meets “first do no harm”
Seth Frank coined the term digital health in 2000; the early framing included internet-based content to improve health and chronic condition management and has more recently been expanded to include…
Can we build a better app? Meet LAMP
In the days where data privacy and transparency in digital health apps are becoming paramount in patients and providers minds can we have a better process? Can we co-create a…
Apps to Support Mental Health- Effective and Accepted?
The evidence base on how digital health solutions can support mental health continues to grow. Health systems look to the evidence base to determine which approaches, products and medicine to…
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