HSAGlobal signs first Medicare Local for mental health plan – Pulse+IT Magazine
South Eastern Sydney Medicare Local (SESML) has signed an agreement with New Zealand-based clinical software developer HSAGlobal to use its HSAGlobal’s Collaborative Care Management Solution (CCMS) to manage two of its mental health programs. CCMS is used in several of New Zealand eHealth projects, including as the software for the National Health IT Board’s shared [...]
Facebook can affect your mental health: Research
JERUSALEM: Facebook and other social networking sites may affect your mental health by causing psychotic episodes and delusions, researchers warn. As internet access becomes increasingly widespread, so do related psychopathologies such as internet addiction and delusions related to the technology and to virtual relationships, according to the study. Web-based communication systems such as Facebook and [...]
Treatment of mental health needs a sound application
pSarah Faithfull recorded hundreds of meals with her smartphone last year. But she wasn’t bragging on social media about the deliciousness of her food. She was fighting anorexia. Faithfull used the mobile app Recovery Record to note what she ate and how she felt, whether she had restricted her intake, and if she wanted to [...]
Harnessing technology to improve mental health
University of Sydney cross-disciplinary researchers are harnessing the benefits offered by advances in online technology to develop innovative programs improving mental health in young people. Associate Professor Rafael Calvo, director of the Software Engineering Group at the School of Electrical and Information Engineering and Professor Ian Hickie, Director of the Brain and Mind Research Institute, [...]
Mental health support goes mobile
Photo: The app can be downloaded onto mobile phones making it accessible to many young people. (ABC TV) A new mobile phone app is aiming to give young people experiencing mental health issues some hope. The app is the creation of Headspace, a national youth mental health foundation, which specifically targets young people with mental health [...]
America’s Psychologist launches Healthy Divorce App
Psychologist Dr. Jeffrey Gardere , Professor at Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine and mental health consultant to various television programs, today announced the launch of his Healthy Divorce App. The mobile application makes the lessons Dr. Jeff has learned from over two decades of helping individuals through every stage of the divorce process available to [...]
Facebook Might Actually Be Good For You
We stalk our ex-partners on it, we are friends with celebrities on it, we play games on it, and we post photos of ourselves on it. But what are we really getting out of the time we spend on Facebook? Like picture from Shutterstock We all know that face-to-face social networks are associated with feelings [...]
Young adults with depression symptoms may benefit from computerized avatars
Young adults, in a period of transition, are often reluctant to seek treatment for mental health problems because of the stigma, inadequate insurance coverage and difficulty finding a mental health care provider. But a new preliminary study by researchers at Case Western Reserve University suggests that depression symptoms may be significantly reduced when 18- to [...]
Twitter ‘move’ to Australia will help curb online abuse
TWITTER’S first corporate presence in Australia will help curb the nation’s growing online bullying problem, a mental health organisation said today. The US-based social media giant is expected to imminently confirm plans to establish a new, full-time presence in Sydney as part of a move to ease tensions with state and federal authorities. Twitter has [...]
Electronic Health Records with Technical Assistance Can Improve Patient Care …
Sustained EHR Technical Assistance is Vital to Boost Quality of Care by Small Physician Practices NEW YORK (Jan. 7, 2013) — The relationship between a physician practice’s adoption of electronic health records (EHR) and quality improvements in patient care remains unclear. However, a new study published in the January issue of Health Affairs by Weill [...]
