http://www.techpsych.net/ AATP Interactive is the weblog of the American Association for Technology in Psychiatry. en-us 2008-05-13T09:19:27-05:00 http://www.techpsych.net/archives/000251.html A device called the MEMENTO Memory LifeBook is designed as a wearable mobile memory aid for elderly individuals with mild-to-moderate dementia. The goal was to design a user friendly, ergonomic device to serve the unique needs of this population. The... rsk 2008-05-13T09:19:27-05:00 http://www.techpsych.net/archives/000249.html According to a survey by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), 92 percent of health care IT professionals said patients should own the data captured in personal health records. Four percent of respondents said providers should own PHR... rsk 2008-05-08T21:57:07-05:00 http://www.techpsych.net/archives/000248.html Virtual Human Agent (VHA) technology has evolved to a point where researchers may begin developing mental health applications that make use of virtual reality patients. In an ongoing study from the University of Southern California of virtual patients (VP). Researchers... rsk 2008-05-05T16:44:21-05:00 http://www.techpsych.net/archives/000246.html Research funded by National Institutes of Health, the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the National Institutes for Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism from University of Houston and published in Addictive Behaviors Journal, demonstrates that a virtual reality (VR) environment can... rsk 2008-04-29T22:35:03-05:00 http://www.techpsych.net/archives/000245.html Researchers at the National Institutes of Health have conducted imaging studies that have identified how the brain reacts to social status. They believe that social hierarchies strongly influence motivation as well as physical and mental health and that different brain... rsk 2008-04-25T22:59:53-05:00 http://www.techpsych.net/archives/000243.html An article published in the New England Journal of Medicine, raises some concerns about using personal health records online and allowing them to be managed by third parties not bound by HIPAA regulations. The authors of the article point out... rsk 2008-04-18T00:38:04-05:00 http://www.techpsych.net/archives/000241.html Research, funded by the Wellcome Trust and published in the British Journal of Psychiatry, demonstrates that suspicious or paranoid thoughts are much more common in the general population than was previously thought and that they are almost as common as... rsk 2008-04-11T22:58:01-05:00 http://www.techpsych.net/archives/000240.html More and more physicians are using smartphones not just to manage phone calls and email but to use them in clinical practice. Unlike laptops and tablet PCs, smartphones are small enough to carry everywhere, their battery life lasts longer than... rsk 2008-04-07T08:15:10-05:00 http://www.techpsych.net/archives/000239.html According to a survey published in the UK today(Ofcom), almost half of children online use social network sites. Over a quarter of eight to 11-year-olds in the UK have a profile on a social network Sites such as Bebo, MySpace... rsk 2008-04-02T09:07:42-05:00 http://www.techpsych.net/archives/000238.html The "2008 Survey of Health Care Consumers" polled more than 3,000 Americans between the ages of 18 and 75. It was directed by the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions. Nearly 80 percent of healthcare consumers are interested in having e-mail... rsk 2008-03-26T08:35:37-05:00 http://www.techpsych.net/archives/000237.html A new survey by Deliotte shows that nearly eight out of 10 adults are interested in having online access to their medical records and test results, and 26% said they would be willing to pay extra for the service. Only... rsk 2008-02-28T12:43:25-05:00 http://www.techpsych.net/archives/000236.html A neuro-headset which interprets the interaction of neurons in the brain will go on sale later this year. It works by picking up electrical activity from the brain and then sends wireless signals to a computer. It has been created... rsk 2008-02-20T12:07:42-05:00 http://www.techpsych.net/archives/000235.html A special report from the California Healtcare Foundation discusses data ownership. The changing landscape of health information technology and the ability to exchange personal health information requires that the legal foundation that facilitates consumers’ access to, and control and use... rsk 2008-02-14T08:08:19-05:00 http://www.techpsych.net/archives/000234.html Publisher Elsevier has launched a clinical health information wiki called WiserWiki. It is geared toward consumers and built on the premise that there is a lack of trust about online health care information. The basis for the wiki is Elsevier's... rsk 2008-02-02T08:27:36-05:00 http://www.techpsych.net/archives/000233.html As Google continues in its attempt to organize the world of information for us all, Google research has disclosed that it will soon provide a home for terabytes of open-source scientific datasets. The storage will be free to scientists and... rsk 2008-01-23T13:34:27-05:00