by Arshya Vahabzadeh | Jul 29, 2015 | Uncategorized
A digital revolution is coming to mental health, having already established a foothold in business, education, and healthcare. This revolution is, however, not led by angry citizens, but is fueled by the rapid emergence of Exponential technologies. Exponential...
by Steven Chan | Jul 29, 2015 | NIH, predictive analytics, sensors
A lot of big names in academia have attended NIH’s Precision Medicine Initiative. Their Workshop of the Precision Medicine Initiative and Working Group of the Advisory Committee to the NIH Director also involves a few select presentations from industry. This has...
by Steven Chan | Jul 29, 2015 | contests, Mayo Clinic
A new contest from Mayo Clinic Innovation & Mayo Clinic Ventures with healthcare just came out. Categories involve wellness, smoking/alcohol cessation, and behavior modification Apply here at http://thinkbig2015.istart.org . Deadline is Aug 15, 2015. h/t Arshya...
by Steven Chan | Jul 28, 2015 | contests, emotion detection, face recognition, Partners HealthCare
From the original website: “All innovators welcome! This is an open call to any clinician or clinician-in-training anywhere in the world to submit ideas to use emotion-sensing technologies to improve healthcare. Applications can be in any setting, from the...
by John Torous | Jul 28, 2015 | Uncategorized
Mobile technologies like smartphones offer novel tools to track mood and signs of depression. There are hundreds of mood trackers commercially available – yet what do we really know about the mobile mental health data they produce? Are self reported mood...
by John Torous | May 22, 2015 | Uncategorized
While it can take nearly a decade for a new drug to go from the lab to marketplace, smartphones apps can be created and placed on app marketplaces in only a matter of weeks or months. Many of these apps are targeted towards psychiatric conditions like major depressive...