Mindstrong Health identifies digital biomarkers of cognitive function using smartphone data

___ mHealth Research on Mental Health Taps Into One’s Tapping Habits (mHealth Intelligence): “Healthcare providers looking to use mHealth in behavioral health treatment have long struggled to make the technology unobtrusive. But recent research suggests that remote monitoring of people with mental health issues could be done by analyzing their smartphone habits. A recent report in the journal NPJ Digital Medicine suggests that a smartphone app that collects user activity in the background can help telemental healthcare providers measure that user’s daily habits and detect when those habits deviate. By combining those habits – called digital biomarkers – with other social and environmental data, providers can then identify when mental health problems occur and why they happen. “We believe that digital biomarkers are the foundation for measurement-based mental healthcare, for which there is a massive unmet patient need,” Dr. Paul Dagum, the study’s lead author and founder and CEO of Mindstrong Health, said in a release. “To provide better mental healthcare, we need better ways to measure cognitive function and brain health that are quantitative, reproducible, continuous and objective.” “The traditional measures of mental health are patient self-assessments or clinician-administered questionnaires,” added Mindstrong co-founder and President Dr. Tom Insel. “They have relatively low inter-rater reliability, and don’t assess patients in real world settin...
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