Realizing the Potential of Mobile Mental Health: New Methods for New Data in Psychiatry

Current Psychiatry Reports

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2015, Pages

  Torous, John ^a,b   Staples, Patrick ^c   Onnela, Jukka Pekka ^c  

^a Harvard Longwood Psychiatry Residency Training Program   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Big data; Mobile; Smartphones; Statistical methods; Technology

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; CASE STUDY; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA EXTRACTION; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MOBILE PHONE; PATIENT INFORMATION; PATIENT MONITORING; REVIEW; TELEPSYCHIATRY; MENTAL HEALTH; PROCEDURES; PSYCHIATRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF REPORT; SMARTPHONE; TELEMEDICINE; TEXT MESSAGING;

CELL PHONES; HUMANS; MENTAL HEALTH; PSYCHIATRY; SELF REPORT; SMARTPHONE; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TELEMEDICINE; TEXT MESSAGING;

EID: 84935843713     PISSN: 15233812     EISSN: 15351645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11920-015-0602-0     Document Type: Review

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