MobiHealth News November 17, 2020
This morning at WISH 2020 Tom Insel and other panelists discussed the opportunities for applying tech to the global mental health shortage.
Over the last decade, digital mental health has come into the spotlight, raising large amounts of venture backing, gaining interest from policymakers and seeing wider adoption. However, unclear efficacy standards, poor engagement and user trust have been obstacles that the community has often faced, according to panelists at WISH 2020 this morning.
“I’ll start by just saying that one of the main issues we had to deal with in thinking about what needed to happen in mental health care in both developing and in developed countries, was to address the problem of engagement,” Dr. Tom Insel, cofounder...