Inside STAT: 5 burning questions about mental health technology

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From tools to track insomnia to voice detection software that can help diagnose depression, mental health apps are ubiquitous. And these apps are helping address a crucial need for more accessible mental health care, which is normally expensive and for which there’s a shortage of specialists. Even still, existing treatments don’t always work. But before these apps can be recommended and relied upon to provide care regularly, there are still unanswered questions about whether they have actually been tested in clinical populations and whether clinicians will want to use them to keep track of their patients. STAT’s Megan Thielking looks into these and other questions for STAT Plus subscribers here.