Posts Tagged ‘mobile health’
The landscape of digital mental health apps: huge unmet needs, quality concerns, app stores asked to ensure transparency
Addressing the mental health crisis (Pharma Field): Each day we find out more about the mental health effects of the pandemic. Early on, the Office for National Statistics found that one in five Britons reported symptoms of depression, compared with one in 10 before. And, according to a recent study led by the University of Nottingham…
Read MoreThe FDA creates new Digital Health unit to reimagine regulatory paths in the age of scalable, AI-enhanced innovation
— Medicine Is Going Digital. The FDA Is Racing to Catch Up (Wired): “WHEN BAKUL PATEL started as a policy advisor in the US Food and Drug Administration in 2008, he could pretty much pinpoint when a product was going to land in front of the reviewers in his division. Back when medical devices were…
Read MoreSince more than 50% of people worldwide can’t access appropriate mental health treatments, let’s welcome (and test) mobile health apps
Mental Health: There’s an App for That (Nature): “Type ‘depression’ into the Apple App Store and a list of at least a hundred programs will pop up on the screen. There are apps that diagnose depression (Depression Test), track moods (Optimism) and help people to “think more positive”
Read MoreNext: How to best civilize the mobile brain health and brain training Wild West (Tip: Consumer education may help more than pure regulation)
UC Riverside Professor Slams Feds, Stands By His Health App (KQED): “UC Riverside professor of psychology Aaron Seitz had an idea for a mobile health app based on his area of research.…Seitz is the academic behind UltimEyes, the vision improvement app that got dinged by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for $150,000 last week for making deceptive…
Read MoreExpanding the brain health toolkit with mobile neurobehavioral tests — aka a “brain thermometer”?
Army touts ‘brain thermometer’ as front-line tool (Army Times): “Army medics will soon use what’s been dubbed a “brain thermometer”: a mobile phone application that can, within minutes, provide health professionals data to help diagnose and measure a soldier’s injuries… The Defense Automated Neurobehavioral Assessment, produced by AnthroTronix, includes
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