Clinically Validated Vital Signs for Mental Health

Remote patient monitoring is everywhere in healthcare today.  We see that in our ever expanding list of remote patient monitoring companies.  It’s not a reach to say that healthcare and startup companies are working hard to monitor every piece of your health remotely.  Everyone sees the potential of having access to your health data in an ongoing basis in order to assess deterioration of your health or even recovery from a disease or surgery.  We all have technology in our pockets that can now share that data with whomever we want and sensors for collecting that data are getting better. With all of this said, we’re still in the early days of this movement.  Much like I saw with interoperability, we’ve made great progress, but there’s so much left to be done.  This was highlighted clearly to me when I talked with Susan Solinsky, Co-Founder & Chief Growth Officer at Ellipsis Health.  Before talking with Solinsky, I noticed on their website that they said “Today, there is no objective and scalable measure for the severity of anxiety and depression.”  As I considered the hundreds of RPM companies, sensors, wearables, and behavioral health startup companies out there, I couldn’t think of anyone that was even working on the problem.  So, I was certainly intrigued to learn about Ellipsis Health’s efforts to create an objective clinical measure of anxiety and depression. Check out our interview with Solinsky below to learn...
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