Can A.I.-Driven Voice Analysis Help Identify Mental Disorders?
Early tests have been promising, but issues involving bias, privacy and mistrust of “black box” algorithms are possible pitfalls. Imagine a test as quick and easy as having your temperature taken or your blood pressure measured that could reliably identify an anxiety disorder or predict an impending depressive relapse. Health care providers have many tools […]
Psychiatrists See Low Merit-Based Incentive Payment System Scores
Psychiatrists had significantly lower performance scores, received more penalties, and earned fewer bonuses in the 2020 Medicare Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) compared to other outpatient physicians, according to a study published in JAMA Health Forum. Under MIPS, CMS monitors provider performance across four categories—quality, promoting interoperability, improvement activities, and cost—to determine their future Medicare […]
You May Soon Find Mental Health Help From Psychedelic Drug-Assisted Psychotherapy In The Metaverse
The pandemic, social unrest, ugly partisan politics, cable news spewing fear and hate, soul-crushing social media, and Russia’s war against Ukraine has contributed to record levels of mental health issues. Nearly 20% of adults are experiencing a mental illness, which is about 50 million Americans. Nearly 5% are experiencing a severe mental illness. The Global […]
Innovative treatments: the new frontier for mental health
In this exclusive piece, Adrien Châtillon, Co-Founder and CEO of Actipulse Neuroscience, explores the future of treatment for diseases that impact mental health. As much as we would wish for holistic wellbeing to be more present in the modern world, the statistics are not in our favour. According to 2022 Adult Prevalence of Mental Illness […]
Using Apps to Improve Depression Care: 2 Models
The expanding use of mobile health technologies is “unprecedented in the history of medicine.”1 Apps have “transformed many aspects of clinical practice” because apps “provide many benefits for health care practitioners, perhaps most significantly increased access to point-of-care tools, which has been shown to support better clinical decision-making and improved patient outcomes.”2 Psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, […]
MENTAL HEALTH PROVIDER USES TECHNOLOGY TO INTEGRATE PSYCHIATRIC SERVICES
A modular, extendable ambulatory electronic medical record software platform has enabled a mental healthcare provider to quickly innovate to integrate psychiatry into its offerings. UpLift, which started operations at the end of 2021, is using technology from Canvas Medical, a San Francisco-based EMR and payments company, to deliver faster, more targeted psychiatric referrals, even allowing […]
‘Science of Happiness’ digital course improves students’ mental health
A remote course on the ‘Science of Happiness’ from the University of Bristol was shown to significantly improve students’ mental health during the pandemic. The online course is the first of its kind in the UK, and is the only course at the University that gives the benefit of credit towards a student’s degree without […]
Deploying Artificial Intelligence Technology To Improve Mental Health
A machine-learning expert and a psychology researcher/clinician may seem an unlikely duo. But MIT’s Rosalind Picard and Massachusetts General Hospital’s Paola Pedrelli are united by the belief that artificial intelligence may be able to help make mental health care more accessible to patients. In her 15 years as a clinician and researcher in psychology, Pedrelli […]
NTU Singapore scientists develop computer programme that uses data from wearable technology to detect depression
A team of scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has developed a predictive computer programme that could be used to detect individuals who are at increased risk of depression. In trials using data from groups of depressed and healthy participants, the programme achieved an accuracy of 80 per cent in detecting those individuals […]
Mantra Health raises $22M to scale its digital mental health clinic for young adults
Mantra Health, a digital mental health startup focused on young adults, has raised $22 million in Series A funding led by VMG Partners. The round includes new investors New Market Venture Partners, Elements Health Ventures, 14W and Alumni Ventures. Returning investors include Canaan Partners, Global Founders Capital, Baleon Capital, Western Tech Investments and City Light […]
Looking Beyond the New Year: How Technology Is Transforming Mental Health
As we head into 2022 (and I hope that this year will be better than the last two), I wanted to look ahead and share my excitement for where the field of psychiatry is headed. Technology is now front and center in almost everything we do, from our interactions at work, at school, our social […]
Inside PsyMed Ventures’ New $25M Fund For Psychedelics And Mental Health Startups
It started as a shared interest in the science around mental health, psychedelics and a podcast featuring like-minded people, and culminated into a venture firm focused on advancing new approaches to mental health treatments. San Francisco-based PsyMed Ventures, founded by Dina Burkitbayeva, Greg Kubin and Matias Serebrinsky in 2020, on Friday announced its new $25 […]
MAC launching Psychiatric Tech program this month
Mineral Area College is launching a new eight-week Psychiatric Technician program in January. The program will not be eligible for college credit, but students may still be eligible for tuition assistance through the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) or SkillUP. Pam Watkins, director of MAC Continuing Education, said the demand is high for Psych […]
Looking Beyond the New Year: How Technology Is Transforming Mental Health
As we head into 2022 (and I hope that this year will be better than the last two), I wanted to look ahead and share my excitement for where the field of psychiatry is headed. Technology is now front and center in almost everything we do, from our interactions at work, at school, our social […]
Digital technology can improve access to mental healthcare
“Psychiatry is a field with high unmet needs. Patients want to listen to the doctor’s explanation more, and doctors also want to provide quality counseling continually. Currently, drugs are the primary means of mental health treatment because of low counseling reimbursement rates and the shortage of counseling time. But if we utilize digital technology, we […]
Gatekeepers need to tame ‘Wild West’ of mental health and other digital health therapeutics
rom individuals to employers, there’s growing interest in using digital services to help people work through mental health issues. It’s a solid approach, given how difficult and costly it can be to find and work with an in-person therapist. Yet digital therapeutics currently represent a kind of “Wild West.” Gatekeepers need to be more methodical […]
Doseology Prepares for Growth Phase in Psychedelic-Focused Mental Health Market, Completes Dealer’s License Application
In preparation for the expected growth in the psychedelic mushroom market, Doseology Sciences Inc. (CSE: MOOD) (“Doseology” or the “Company”) has submitted its application with Health Canada to become a “Licensed Dealer” under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (Canada). The global psychedelic drug market is expected by Data Bridge Market Research to reach approximately […]
Driving better mental health outcomes with digital technologies
This panel at HIMSS21 APAC focused on the role of digital tools in addressing issues around mental health and driving better outcomes. The effects of lockdowns, social isolation, lack of connectivity, as well as unemployment and inequities during the COVID-19 pandemic has greatly affected people’s mental health. Fortunately, there have been increasing efforts to find […]
Mental health: The role of AI-powered solutions
Amlan Basu, chief medical officer at The Huntercombe Group and Active Care Group, analyses where artificial intelligence can impact the treatment of mental health. Artificial intelligence will certainly have a profound impact on the way that we detect, diagnose, and treat mental disorder. Yet most mental health professionals have little understanding of AI or the […]
The Brain’s Electrical Tremors Could Offer Mental Health Clues
Brain monitoring suggests common link between electrical tremors and mental health disorders A new review of current literature, conducted by the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King’s College London, has found that irregular responses in the brain to challenging tasks and mistakes could be key to understanding common links between abnormal behaviours […]
Machine Learning Reveals Aggression Symptoms in Childhood ADHD
Child psychiatric disorders, such as oppositional defiant disorder and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), can feature outbursts of anger and physical aggression. A better understanding of what drives these symptoms could help inform treatment strategies. Yale researchers have now used a machine learning-based approach to uncover disruptions of brain connectivity in children displaying aggression. While previous research […]
Treating depression with an app
Please can you introduce yourself and tell us what led you to create an app for depression? We wrote a paper reviewing current treatment guidelines for depression and proposed some new ideas for an improved set of guidelines that departed quite a bit from current guidelines and were based on sound clinical evidence. We considered […]
Behavioral Health Program With Automation, Telehealth May Prevent Suicide
Researchers conducting a pilot study using a novel automated assessment and telehealth technology for behavioral health integration as a model for suicide prevention reported a 73% reduction in suicide severity among patients at an outpatient mental health clinic, according to study results recently presented at Psych Congress 2021, held from October 29 to November 1, […]