Digital mental health research insights

Bringing research to implementation.

Shubs is joined by Lucy Cesnakova from DiMe in this quick dive into an important piece of research bringing insights to advance digital solutions that serve mental health, DiMe's work here was great here because Lucy and the team intentionally sought out input from different countries, access levels and other demographics across the ecosystem. It's great that the Wellcome Trust funded this work. And more of this type of research would clearly be, ahem, welcome.

Why should I listen?
This will be useful if you are building solutions with underserved communities in mental health and applies both to high income and LMIC settings.
If you are researching digital endpoints and biomarkers in mental health or involved in health system transformation for mental health this is well worth a listen. 

We cover the big commonalities across all geographies, plus what we can learn about local nuances as well as some key a-ha moments Lucy and the team gained.

Check out my substack article for a written reflection on this episode.

Chapters

00:00 Introduction to DiMe and Lucy's work
03:57 Current healthcare context
06:01 Methodology of Research and Data Collection
08:27 Key Findings: Universal Commonalities in Mental Health Technologies
16:04 Unique local insights

Here's the full report: https://datacc.dimesociety.org/mental-health/
DiMe society:https://dimesociety.org/

About Lucy:
Lucy Cesnakova, MS, is a Program Lead at Digital Medicine Society (DiME).
At DiME Lucy has led several projects in the space of digital measurements and technologies for health: a flagship pre-competitive collaboration project to advance the digital measurement of nocturnal scratch; an initiative that explores path forward for sensor-based digital health technologies for mental health; or recent work on use of patient-generated health data in development of medical products and health technologies. 
At DiMe she works with industry, patient organizations, regulators, clinicians and payers to create resources that will improve adoption of digital technologies in research and care. In the past, Lucy has led technical development of digital endpoints or other software solutions as a product lead.