We’re LIVE at #healthnext23!! I’m proud to serve as today’s MC and thrilled to open up with Dr. Michelle Morse sharing inspiring remarks: “public systems want and need to work with digital health”

Opening panel with Dr. Ashwin Vasan and Tanzeem Choudhury- “what we choose in times of peace, we reap in times of crisis, only 3% on prevention so we need to balance prevention and care” #HealthNext23

“Young people want to receive care digitally, and we know this modality is sustainable as we’ve seen through COVID-19” Dr. Michelle Morse #healthnext23

Great point from Cecilia Livesey of UnitedHealth Group that while we have a lot of the puzzle pieces in mental health tech, understanding the whole puzzle board is the real challenge. 🧩🧠🔑#healthnext23 Cornell Tech HealthNext Summit

We must serve patients with evidence-based digital mental health with clinically proven results. Thanks to Rachel Goldberg of NovaWell for highlighting the importance of these prerequisites. #HealthNext23

“Apps need to be evaluated as a living ecosystem (for mental health). If our members and the therapist agree (on the app) you can see 4x engagement.” #healthnext23 NeuroFlow Kaiser Permanente Headway Ling Shao

We need to bring the clinicians’ voices into developing digital mental tools to have products that the care teams want to use and can trust. Dr Nicole Christian Brathwaite, MD #HealthNext23

There is no replacement for human empathy in mental health treatment. AI-driven tools can be good companions of care teams to increase patient engagement, but they can't deliver care or replace therapists. Alison Darcy of Woebot #HealthNext23

🎯Clinicians should be part of the AI tools that we are developing so they can find the insights that data-driven tools present to them reliable and relevant. Natali Haas of Cohen Veterans Bioscience 🧠 #HealthNext23

Very well stated by the panelists: patients' data belongs to them, and privacy is not something to compromise for the sake of helping patients. #HealthNext23

Our job is to elevate human capabilities in delivering care by creating digital mental health tools that are good at establishing effective therapeutic relationships with patients. Alison Darcy of Woebot #HealthNext23

Really looking forward to this meeting! Don’t forget to register!

Today is the day! Day 1 kick off of #SDMH2023 I’ll be tweeting some highlights throughout the day

First off for #SDMH2023, a welcome kick off by David Mohr and a keynote address by @cynmcsweet on "Merging Sandboxes: Challenges and Opportunities for Multi-Sector Collaboration in Digital Mental Health"

I'll also note Society for Digital Mental Health is using an OSF repository to share all of our posters, so if you miss a poster session, check out the posters here: osf.io/meetings/SDMH2… #SDMH2023

@cynmcsweet brings up the challenge to speed up the translation of evidence into practice. #SDMH2023 this is something I've thought a lot about with DMH and makes me think of Enola Proctor 's recent work on the FAST framework: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35669171/

This reminds me of @cynmcsweet 's great recent paper in Translational Behavioral Medicine on recommendations for training of digital health scientists to build these skills early in their training academic.oup.com/tbm/article-ab… SBMDigitalHealth #SDMH2023 Society for Digital Mental Health

Next up for #SDMH2023, poster tracks, we have simultaneous poster tracks I'm moderating Poster Track #5: "Integrating Digital Services in Healthcare Systems" so won't get to catch all the posters, but fortunately all posters are on the OSF page osf.io/meetings/SDMH2… Society for Digital Mental Health

First up in Poster Session #5, #SDMH2023: Ramya Ramadurai: Integration of Mindfulness Coach and the VA CALM Mindfulness Group in PCMHI: feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary clinical outcomes: osf.io/nadp9/ Society for Digital Mental Health

Robert Watt, Secretary General at the Department of Health, outlined Ireland's roadmap for digitally transforming our health and care service. #SmartHealth24 #HealthTech