mHealth Intelligence August 7, 2020
UCLA and Apple are partnering on a three-year study to analyze the root causes of depression, and will be using mHealth tools and a telehealth platform to remotely monitor participants at home.
UCLA is launching a three-year study, using telehealth and mHealth tools, that aims to give healthcare providers a better handle on how to diagnose and treat depression.
Researchers at the university, who are partnering with Apple, will use a connected health platform that includes smartwatches, a wearable sleep monitoring device and smartphones to remotely track sleep, activity heart rate and other daily metrics.
“Current approaches to treating depression rely almost entirely on the subjective recollections of depression sufferers,” Nelson Freimer, a professor of psychiatry at UCLA and the...
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