Psychiatric health conditions and behavioral issues received greater prominence at the 2013 mHealth Summit, with presentations and panels given by prominent national researchers. This focus comes at the right time, when today’s mental health system is extremely dysfunctional.

Long wait times, overtreatment, and high-touch, low-frequency appointments plague both clinicians and patients alike. As Tom Doub, PhD (@tomdoub,@researchatCRI), puts it,

“Most highly trained staff do routine, low-value tasks,” Doub says. “Our psychiatrists—our most scarce resource—are doing routine med checks, and not focused on the most complex, hard problems.”

Here’s our roundup of some of the most interesting work being done to use mobile health to improve mental health.

Read more: http://www.imedicalapps.com/2014/01/mobile-mental-health-behavioral-sensor-frameworks-schizophrenia/ 

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