In the mental health context, we strive to reduce the gap between people who suffer from mental illness and the tools and interventions that can help them.
Efforts have started with Internet-based self-help therapies and have continued with an increasing use of ubiquitous computing for providing effective solutions for maintaining and improving mental health. However, technology is always moving towards further miniaturization and increased computational power, ...
Living with diabetes can be challenging, especially when it affects daily independence. Smart home lifts empower patients to move confidently within their homes, improving their quality of life by removing physical barriers. This independence is crucial for mental health and well...
Recent research has reflected the virtual trend as well: a RAND study found that the significant rise in telehealth use during the height of COVID-19 was driven more by people looking for mental health services than care for physical conditions. During COVID-19, Calgary Counselling ...
a non-profit organization that provides free, 24/7 confidential text-based mental health support in both English and Spanish for anyone in the US and Puerto Rico; andAnata no Ibashoin Japan. These organizations train real people who are then supervised by mental health professional staff, offerin...
medicine. This negative association stems in part to the difficulty in tracking changes in mood, cognition, and certain behaviors over time. But there is a growing contingency of psychiatric clinicians who are bringing technology into this specialty to help propel standards in mental h...
Technology has made mental health care more accessible. Another benefit of advancing technology is that it has become easier for mental health treatment professionals to further understand how to help people struggling with mental health issues [1]. ...
While eHealth technologies such as web-based interventions, mobile apps, and virtual reality have the potential to be of added value for forensic mental healthcare, there is a gap between this potential and the current situation in practice. The goal of this study was to identify recommendations...
information. Studying aggregated information can tell us so much about our health and our well-being, but to be able to safely share our information, we need special protections for mental privacy. This is why we need a right to cognitive liberty. This right would secure for us our freedom...
Hence, patient-reported outcomes between visits are critical for designing effective health care interventions for mental health so that there is continued improvement in the patient's wellbeing. To fill in this gap, Sasangohar and his team worked with clinicians and researchers in the Department of...