Roberts Laura Weiss, Chan Steven, Torous John
1Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA USA.
2Department of Psychiatry and Division of Hospital Medicine, Clinical Informatics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA USA.
NPJ Digit Med. 2018 Feb 26;1:20176. doi: 10.1038/s41746-017-0006-0. eCollection 2018.
Mental health is an area of growing interest in the digital health space. Mobile and connected technologies offer new tools that can potentially aid in both the diagnostic and interventional aspects of psychiatric care. To understand the potential of these digital tools in psychiatry, this paper offers an overview of the development, current research, clinical use cases, and next steps necessary to realize the potential of digital health in mental health. Focusing on smartphones' and wearable sensors' ability to advance clinical data collection via multiple domains: self-report, behavioral, and physiological, we explore opportunities and challenges in translating these technologies into clinical care tools that can advance how we understand and approach mental illness.
心理健康是数字健康领域中一个越来越受关注的领域。移动和互联技术提供了新工具,这些工具可能有助于精神科护理的诊断和干预方面。为了了解这些数字工具在精神病学中的潜力,本文概述了数字健康在心理健康领域的发展、当前研究、临床应用案例以及实现其潜力所需的后续步骤。我们聚焦于智能手机和可穿戴传感器通过自我报告、行为和生理等多个领域推进临床数据收集的能力,探讨将这些技术转化为临床护理工具的机遇与挑战,这些工具能够推动我们理解和应对精神疾病的方式。