Integrating Data from Smartphones & Wearables into Psychiatric Clinical Practice-View Presentation

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In this session, Justin Baker discusses the integration of smartphone and wearable data into psychiatric clinical practice. He introduces "digital phenotyping" as a modern approach to patient monitoring, paralleling historical psychiatric approaches but enhanced by technology. Digital phenotyping offers clinicians data on patients' mental and behavioral health outside the traditional clinical setting, potentially reducing relapses and enhancing treatment efficacy. However, challenges remain, such as developing standardized methodologies, statistical tools, and ensuring patient-provider trust, particularly around privacy and ethical issues.<br /><br />Baker highlights the use of wearables in hospitals to replace cumbersome sleep tracking methods and improve insights into medication effects. He also discusses broader applications in outpatient care, emphasizing the triangulation of patient data—how they feel, function, and appear—using data from various sources such as self-reports, wearable sensors, and environmental context.<br /><br />Overall, digital phenotyping is poised to provide comprehensive, data-driven insights into patient care, although its widespread adoption requires further development in tools, data analysis, and ethical consensus on data usage.

Keywords

digital phenotyping

psychiatric practice

smartphone data

wearable technology

patient monitoring

privacy issues

treatment efficacy

data analysis

ethical concerns