Our webinar on app evaluation with NAMI is now online and free to access: ​https://www.nami.org/Blogs/NAMI-s-Ask-the-Expert/2020/NAMI-s-Ask-the-Expert-Webinar-What-to-Know-Before-Using-a-Mental-Health-App

You can read, for free, the chapter on digital mental health from youth published April 2020. The link below is to the pdf

The Registrar’s Office at Harvard Medical School approved our new elective: PS515m.5, Digital Psychiatry.  http://www.medcatalog.harvard.edu/courselist.aspx?dep=&search=PS515
The course is open to all Harvard  Medical Students and we hope to open it soon to visiting students as well.  If outside  Harvard Medical School and  interested, let us know and we will add  you name to  the list. 

-- by Aditya Vaidyam

Our team at the Division of Digital Psychiatry develops a comprehensive digital medicine platform called the LAMP Platform (short for "Learn", "Assess", "Manage", and "Prevent" — not "Linux", "Apache", "MySQL", and "PHP" unfortunately). It's built to serve a wide array of clinical healthcare and medical research needs, but started with humble beginnings in psychiatric and neurocognitive research. Starting with the foundational goals of health equity, ethical design, security & privacy, open data, and open science, the aim of the LAMP Platform is to derive unique insights from the data of individuals with lived experiences, accessible to and for the benefit of all individuals around the world.
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Over the last year we've worked closely with patients, study participants, our many global collaborators, and key developers to re-architect the LAMP Platform and translate our clinical goals and needs into robust engineering principles. In this post, I'll be talking specifically about how we support our principles and goals through our newly released client libraries for the LAMP Platform.

The majority of digital psychiatry team will be mainly working from home, but given the nature of the field still active. Our digital clinic will continue to serve patients (new and existing) now via telehealth visits and continue to utilize the mindLAMP app. On Friday the 20th of March, our team will help host a webinar on "Telepsychiatry in the Era of COVID-19" that outlines many recent changes around regulation, prescribing, and billing. Our team will continue to discuss the evolving role of technology in helping during these challenging times.  You can read more about tips here: https://www.purewow.com/wellness/ways-to-mitigate-anxiety

DOORS was in the news this week with the publication of the first peer-reviewed paper. You can read all the details at: ​https://eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-03/wkh-sto030620.php

The Digital Psychiatry team is in Toronto at at the 9th Annual E-Mental Health Conference. Our team will give the keynote address on Thursday, co-run an smartphone app evaluation session, and present a poster.  If you are here, stop by and say hello to Natali, John, and Sarah.

The team presented an accepted poster at the BIDMC Machine Learning Meeting and shared ongoing results with the community. The topic of the poster was around using new methods to predict suicidal thoughts and offer early warning signs of risk based on smartphone meta-data.