Keynote Lectures
Personalising and Scaling Mental Health Care and Mental Health Research by Digital Means
Harald Baumeister, Ulm University, Germany
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Harold Thimbleby, Swansea University, United Kingdom
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Laura Fiorini, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy
Personalising and Scaling Mental Health Care and Mental Health Research by Digital Means
Harald Baumeister
Ulm University
Germany
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Brief Bio
Prof. Baumeister is head of the Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy and the associated psychotherapeutic university outpatient clinic at Ulm University. His research concept represents a multi-methods, interdisciplinary approach on mental and behavioural health across the lifespan. The topic results in a focus that ranges from public mental health, prevention, and health promotion, psychological and psychotherapeutic treatment to rehabilitation and aftercare concepts. His main areas of expertise are research on digital mental and behavioural health, depression and anxiety, digital phenotyping, smart sensing and psychodiagnostics, psychotherapy as well as health services research (https://www.uni-ulm.de/in/psy-klips/forschung/forschung/).
He has published more than 300 articles and book chapters and is internationally renowned as expert in the field of digital mental and behavioural health research. Two recent books focus on digital health interventions as well as digital phenotyping and mobile sensing. He is speaker of several interest groups on digital health and part of the two newly to be founded German Centres of Mental Health and Child and Adolescent Health.
Abstract
Digital mental health is a broad term that refers to both diagnostic and interventional solutions for healthcare as well as innovative digital research approaches in the field of mental health research. These applications include, for example, digital routine outcome monitoring systems and digital decision support systems, internet and mobile-based interventions, chatbots and just-in-time adaptive interventions (JITAI) as well as ecological momentary assessment (EMA), smart sensing and digital phenotyping. After decades of research focusing on the feasibility, acceptability, efficacy and effectiveness of digital solutions, the field is now turning to more challenging questions such as the personalisation and scaling of mental health care and research. Knowledge about moderators, active components and mechanisms of change of effective digital applications for mental health will open up new opportunities for personalised mental health care. Efficient digital research infrastructures integrated into routine care will enable research to be accelerated at scale, providing the basis for artificial intelligence (AI)-based digital solutions. This presentation will discuss research findings, opportunities and challenges on the path to personalising and scaling mental health care.
Keynote Lecture
Harold Thimbleby
Swansea University
United Kingdom
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Laura Fiorini
Università degli Studi di Firenze
Italy
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