Providers using more apps in treatment but with caution

Privacy issues are common concern
Since the pandemic, the saying, `there’s an app for that,” is applying to more mental health providers, who have incorporated virtual tools into their delivery of care.
A website that evaluates apps on cost, features, privacy, and clinical evidence called Mindapps.org was developed by clinical psychologists while working on a study.
The study, published in December 2022 in the JAMA Network Open, covered a cross-sectional review of more than 500 mental health apps, showing most overlapped in offerings ranging from psychoeducation to goal tracking and mindfulness.
The study’s co-author is John Torous, MD, MBI, director of the digital psychiatry division at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.
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