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The Mental Health App Marketplace is a Mess, Researchers Find Harvard psychiatrists perform a comprehensive analysis of the mental health apps marketplace and find misinformation. 19 The issues commonly associated with mental health apps are made worse by misleading app marketplace metrics. In response, a team of Harvard psychiatrists led by John Torous has created an assessment framework and a public database of hundreds of apps to extend previous research into apps’ limited functionality and clinical utility. To assess these apps, the researchers developed an assessment framework that th...

Open Mind Health Launches Innovative and Customized Wellness Tracks, Significantly Raising the Quality Bar in Mental Telehealth News provided by Share this article OMH launches the first mental telehealth practice utilizing personalized and holistic wellness tracks.  The company was founded by Dr. Craig Beach, a clinical and forensic psychiatrist who, over 20 years, has accumulated a wealth of experience identifying mental wellness approaches that work.  As Dr. Beach states, "Mental health is essential to overall health. Only by customizing and targeting care utilizing evidence-based tre...

How a year of living online has changed us Image: bob al-greene / mashable 2021-03-11 16:15:07 UTC Imagine a household where everyone logged on to the internet in the morning and spent the rest of the day online. Four hours on Zoom or FaceTime. Three hours browsing the web. Three hours scrolling through Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. Three hours gaming. Four hours streaming HD Netflix. Imagine they did this every day of the month.  It seems impossible that so many people sit in front of their screens for so long, and yet something like it is a new normal in America. As work, school, an...

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Who’s Got Your Health Data? © (Getty Images) Back view of unrecognizable senior woman using smartphone by sea pier Have you ever bought something online and then had ads for that same item annoy you across the internet for weeks? Creepy, right? What if your doctor discovered you had high blood pressure, and then promos for anti-hypertension medication started popping up everywhere? That would be really creepy (and possibly illegal), but it's technologically feasible. Thanks to digital developments like electronic health records and smartphone apps, there's a growing pile of computerized...