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Int J Bipolar Disord. 2020 Jan 10;8(1):2. doi: 10.1186/s40345-019-0164-x.

Smartphones in mental health: a critical review of background issues, current status and future concerns.

International journal of bipolar disorders

Michael Bauer, Tasha Glenn, John Geddes, Michael Gitlin, Paul Grof, Lars V Kessing, Scott Monteith, Maria Faurholt-Jepsen, Emanuel Severus, Peter C Whybrow

Affiliations

  1. Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Medical Faculty, Technische Universität Dresden, Fetscherstr. 74, 01307, Dresden, Germany. [email protected].
  2. ChronoRecord Association, Fullerton, CA, USA.
  3. Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, Oxford, UK.
  4. Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA, USA.
  5. Mood Disorders Center of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.
  6. Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
  7. Copenhagen Affective Disorder Research Center (CADIC), Psychiatric Center Copenhagen, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark.
  8. Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, Traverse City Campus, Traverse City, MI, USA.
  9. Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Medical Faculty, Technische Universität Dresden, Fetscherstr. 74, 01307, Dresden, Germany.

PMID: 31919635 PMCID: PMC6952480 DOI: 10.1186/s40345-019-0164-x

Abstract

There has been increasing interest in the use of smartphone applications (apps) and other consumer technology in mental health care for a number of years. However, the vision of data from apps seamlessly returned to, and integrated in, the electronic medical record (EMR) to assist both psychiatrists and patients has not been widely achieved, due in part to complex issues involved in the use of smartphone and other consumer technology in psychiatry. These issues include consumer technology usage, clinical utility, commercialization, and evolving consumer technology. Technological, legal and commercial issues, as well as medical issues, will determine the role of consumer technology in psychiatry. Recommendations for a more productive direction for the use of consumer technology in psychiatry are provided.

Keywords: Cellphone; Mental illness; Psychiatry; Smartphone; Technology; Wearables

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