Over the past 5 years, there has been tremendous progress in the use of technologies
to support psychiatric diagnosis and care. This burgeoning use of technology has been
accompanied by a new set of descriptive terms proposed to depict how such technology
may be used. Terms such as “digital phenotyping”
1
and “personal sensing”
2
have been proposed to describe the process of using sensors to map behavior and to
enhance clinical monitoring capability. Simultaneously, there is a growing body of
evidence to support the use of mobile tools
3
and telepsychiatry.
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Published online: June 28, 2017
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