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4 Companies Using Tech to Make #MentalHealth Help More Accessible

From wordpress.futurism.com - October 19, 2018 1:09 PM

Those suffering from mental health problems have more options than ever before. And along with the tireless efforts of advocates and mental health professionals, technological advancements have also played a large role in combating mental illness.

From diagnosing mental health issues, to finding local treatment options and support groups, the internet allows us to deal with mental health in a way that previous generations would never have thought possible. And thanks to advances in smartphone technology, new methods such as online therapy are becoming more and more common.

According to the American Psychological Association, some studies indicate that “telemental health” and “asynchronous messaging therapy” can, in some cases, “be as effective as in-person therapy.”

Other studies have shown that online therapy often proves useful as a first step for those who are reluctant to get help, and can lead to patients to seeking out more intensive treatment methods.

For those who are interested in exploring the world of online therapy, we list here 4 websites which are a great place to start on your journey toward optimal mental health.

You can receive online therapy, counseling, and psychiatry with these sites that optimize your mental health.

1. ICOUNSELING.COM

2. MYTHERAPIST.COM

3. PRIDECOUNSELING.COM

4. REGAIN.US

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Many smart wearable devices can even monitor mental-health data

From www.miamiherald.com - October 7, 2018 7:25 AM

It is projected that by next year, over 7.6 billion people throughout the world will use over 30 billion smart, sensor-based wearable devices that will monitor human activities, including mental-health data.

Smartphones and wearable sensors are able to detect and analyze behaviors such as activity (by GPS, location, and speed); sleep hours (your total time in bed or asleep); and various brain functions through games prompted to test memory, executive capacities, emotions and moods.

This will soon become the paramount source of obtaining health data with a special emphasis on mental health issues.

Psychiatrists will be able to use these new technologies to identify a healthy person at risk by being able to analyze samplings of feelings, thoughts, and general behaviors as they occur in real time and in their real life.

Well, there are reliability issues, problem of missing data, retention/adherence abilities, and subjects neglecting to wear or charge their devices after a certain period of time.

The new learning algorithms of artificial intelligence technologies are able to integrate structured and unstructured data and should eventually be able to tackle these potential pitfalls.

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Studies show that CBT-I delivered digitally through mobile phone apps is effective in treating # insomnia.

From choice.npr.org - October 11, 2018 4:17 AM

Studies show that Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I) delivered digitally through mobile phone apps is effective in treating insomnia.

Like a real therapist, the apps that use Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I) also provide practical tools to help the user worry less about their sleep and over time, be less anxious and more confident about their ability get a good night's rest. It's very similar to what physicians do face-to-face with patients,

And a recent study of Sleepio by Ong and the team that developed the product found that participants who used the product reported an improvement in insomnia symptoms and overall wellbeing.

However, these apps don't work for everyone.

The recent study hints at why. Less than 50 percent [of people who were assigned to use the app in a randomized controlled trial] are able to make it through the entire course of CBT delivered through digital platforms, For some people it may be hard to make it through all the sessions of CBT.

This is true of most health and wellness apps.

In other studies it has been found that of the 10,000 mental health apps out there, very few are actually being used.

We dont really understand how people are using technology towards their health and recovery,

But in some ways, he says, people with insomnia may be ahead of scientists in figuring out what works well for them.

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Mobile tools to serve as first lines of defense for concerned consumers #dermatology #mHealth - VisualDx officially launches Aysa

From www.mobihealthnews.com - October 5, 2018 12:49 AM

A lot of startups are starting to offer mobile tools to serve as “first lines of defense” for concerned consumers. A natural extension to patient education, they serve as the first line of diagnosis.

Dermatology is a particularly attractive area for this because of a national shortage of dermatologists in the United States.

Clinical decision support tool maker VisualDx officially launched Aysa, its first consumer-facing app, last month at Health 2.0 in San Francisco. The app allows users to upload pictures of skin lesions or rashes, enter some additional information about themselves and receive suggestions of what condition they might have and what actions to take next.

VisualDx stands out as a company that’s moving from provider-focused clinical decision support into the consumer world, which should lend it more credibility to its platform.

The app uses machine learning to identify skin conditions and make treatment suggestions.

services like this are crucial, even acknowledging their limitations, because people are already looking online for medical answers, so they might as well have the best ones possible.

CEO Dr. Art Papier in conversation with MobiHealthNews said

“We know that everybody searches Google with their symptoms or they go to WebMD and use a symptom checker,” he said. “So the real question is how do you develop something that’s an educational symptom checker that’s safe? The art of this is to do a better job of educating so people know on a weekend, do I need to run to urgent care on a weekend, or can I get some better information that will help me make some decisions and then I’ll see the doctor later if necessary.”

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Tech solutions which offer at-home services like this are crucial, because people are already looking online for medical answers, so they might as well have the best ones possible. It definitely helps one get an insight as to what to search for rather than search the whole world wide web and drive up paranoia.

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