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Why mental-health tech must ally with academia VentureBeat
GUEST: Multiple times per week, our patients ask us where technology might play a role in their care — from apps that they’ve downloaded on their phones for depression to virtual reality-based games for help with their addictions. Our field — mental health — is waiting for academia and industry to enter a relationship — and to do so ASAP, as it might be the best match any medical field has yet seen. As psychiatrists, we admit that mental health needs to catch up. Other areas of medicine, including cancer immunology and HIV, have already seen prime examples of large-scale academic-industry c…