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DATE: September 8, 2026 at 06:00PM
SOURCE: Association of Health Care Journalists: MENTAL HEALTHTITLE: These new resources can help you vet digital mental health tools
If you’re a journalist covering mental health, you’re bound to come across some new digital tool claiming to combat anxiety or encourage healthier self-talk. But reporting on them — whether as a news article about a buzzy new product or in a roundup of resources in a service piece — can be tricky.
As I wrote for an article in the American Psychological Association’s Monitor on Psychology magazine, studies suggest there are tens of thousands of mental health apps on the market, and their safety and efficacy range widely. A few apps have undergone randomized controlled trials and have received FDA authorization. Others make bold claims and can compromise patient safety and privacy. Some may pose relatively low risk, but they also aren’t a substitute for traditional mental health care.
How are consumers, mental health professionals and journalists supposed to keep up with the good, bad and in-between? One way is through two relatively new programs from professional psychological and psychiatric organizations. Here’s an overview:
The American Psychological Association’s Digital Badge Program
This system provides “independent, evidence-based evaluations of digital mental and behavioral health technologies,” the APA said. “Each evaluation is grounded in evidence, clinical insight, regulatory alignment, and user safety.” To search for various tools and see how they stack up, explore the program’s Digital Badge Solutions Library.
The American Psychiatric Association’s App Advisor
This is a series of questions you can go through when trying to decide whether an app is an appropriate choice for a certain person or situation. The goal, the APA says, is “to provide a hierarchical rating system with content-specific questions that guide a thoughtful approach to app selection.”
This process aims to help people “understand the key information that should be considered when choosing an app, and how this differs from selecting traditional therapeutic interventions.”
Media contacts
Journalists interested in learning more about either program or speaking with an expert in digital mental health can contact the organizations’ media departments:
•American Psychological Association: [email protected]
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•American Psychiatric Association: Erin Connors, [email protected]
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#psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy @psychotherapist @psychotherapists @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork @psychiatry #mentalhealth #psychiatry #healthcare #depression #psychotherapist #DigitalMentalHealthTools #MentalHealthApps #AppEvaluation #DigitalBadgeProgram #APA #AppAdvisor #MentalHealthTech #EvidenceBasedTech #PatientSafety #DigitalHealthNews
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DATE: September 8, 2026 at 06:00PM
SOURCE: Association of Health Care Journalists: MENTAL HEALTHTITLE: These new resources can help you vet digital mental health tools
If you’re a journalist covering mental health, you’re bound to come across some new digital tool claiming to combat anxiety or encourage healthier self-talk. But reporting on them — whether as a news article about a buzzy new product or in a roundup of resources in a service piece — can be tricky.
As I wrote for an article in the American Psychological Association’s Monitor on Psychology magazine, studies suggest there are tens of thousands of mental health apps on the market, and their safety and efficacy range widely. A few apps have undergone randomized controlled trials and have received FDA authorization. Others make bold claims and can compromise patient safety and privacy. Some may pose relatively low risk, but they also aren’t a substitute for traditional mental health care.
How are consumers, mental health professionals and journalists supposed to keep up with the good, bad and in-between? One way is through two relatively new programs from professional psychological and psychiatric organizations. Here’s an overview:
The American Psychological Association’s Digital Badge Program
This system provides “independent, evidence-based evaluations of digital mental and behavioral health technologies,” the APA said. “Each evaluation is grounded in evidence, clinical insight, regulatory alignment, and user safety.” To search for various tools and see how they stack up, explore the program’s Digital Badge Solutions Library.
The American Psychiatric Association’s App Advisor
This is a series of questions you can go through when trying to decide whether an app is an appropriate choice for a certain person or situation. The goal, the APA says, is “to provide a hierarchical rating system with content-specific questions that guide a thoughtful approach to app selection.”
This process aims to help people “understand the key information that should be considered when choosing an app, and how this differs from selecting traditional therapeutic interventions.”
Media contacts
Journalists interested in learning more about either program or speaking with an expert in digital mental health can contact the organizations’ media departments:
•American Psychological Association: [email protected]
•
•American Psychiatric Association: Erin Connors, [email protected]
•
The post These new resources can help you vet digital mental health tools appeared first on Association of Health Care Journalists.
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Learn more at https://healthjournalism.org/topic/mental-health/ .
This robot is NOT affiliated with Association of Health Care Journalists and merely rebroadcasts from their site. Responses posted here are not monitored.
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#psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy @psychotherapist @psychotherapists @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork @psychiatry #mentalhealth #psychiatry #healthcare #depression #psychotherapist #DigitalMentalHealthTools #MentalHealthApps #AppEvaluation #DigitalBadgeProgram #APA #AppAdvisor #MentalHealthTech #EvidenceBasedTech #PatientSafety #DigitalHealthNews
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DATE: September 8, 2026 at 06:00PM
SOURCE: Association of Health Care Journalists: MENTAL HEALTHTITLE: These new resources can help you vet digital mental health tools
If you’re a journalist covering mental health, you’re bound to come across some new digital tool claiming to combat anxiety or encourage healthier self-talk. But reporting on them — whether as a news article about a buzzy new product or in a roundup of resources in a service piece — can be tricky.
As I wrote for an article in the American Psychological Association’s Monitor on Psychology magazine, studies suggest there are tens of thousands of mental health apps on the market, and their safety and efficacy range widely. A few apps have undergone randomized controlled trials and have received FDA authorization. Others make bold claims and can compromise patient safety and privacy. Some may pose relatively low risk, but they also aren’t a substitute for traditional mental health care.
How are consumers, mental health professionals and journalists supposed to keep up with the good, bad and in-between? One way is through two relatively new programs from professional psychological and psychiatric organizations. Here’s an overview:
The American Psychological Association’s Digital Badge Program
This system provides “independent, evidence-based evaluations of digital mental and behavioral health technologies,” the APA said. “Each evaluation is grounded in evidence, clinical insight, regulatory alignment, and user safety.” To search for various tools and see how they stack up, explore the program’s Digital Badge Solutions Library.
The American Psychiatric Association’s App Advisor
This is a series of questions you can go through when trying to decide whether an app is an appropriate choice for a certain person or situation. The goal, the APA says, is “to provide a hierarchical rating system with content-specific questions that guide a thoughtful approach to app selection.”
This process aims to help people “understand the key information that should be considered when choosing an app, and how this differs from selecting traditional therapeutic interventions.”
Media contacts
Journalists interested in learning more about either program or speaking with an expert in digital mental health can contact the organizations’ media departments:
•American Psychological Association: [email protected]
•
•American Psychiatric Association: Erin Connors, [email protected]
•
The post These new resources can help you vet digital mental health tools appeared first on Association of Health Care Journalists.
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Learn more at https://healthjournalism.org/topic/mental-health/ .
This robot is NOT affiliated with Association of Health Care Journalists and merely rebroadcasts from their site. Responses posted here are not monitored.
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Unofficial Psychology Today Xitter to toot feed at Psych Today Unofficial Bot @PTUnofficialBot
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#psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy @psychotherapist @psychotherapists @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork @psychiatry #mentalhealth #psychiatry #healthcare #depression #psychotherapist #DigitalMentalHealthTools #MentalHealthApps #AppEvaluation #DigitalBadgeProgram #APA #AppAdvisor #MentalHealthTech #EvidenceBasedTech #PatientSafety #DigitalHealthNews
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🤖 If AI can write like a clinician, who is ultimately responsible for what it gets wrong?
🔗 Toward Responsible and Privacy-Preserving Generation of Inpatient Clinical Discharge Notes Using Large Language Models. https://doi.org/10.34133/csbj.0151
📚 CSBJ Smart Hospital: https://spj.science.org/journal/csbj/smarthospital
#HealthcareAI #GenerativeAI #ArtificialIntelligence #DigitalHealth #ClinicalAI #HealthTech #MedicalAI #LargeLanguageModels #LLM #ClinicalDocumentation #PatientSafety #MedicalTechnology #ClinicalResearch #MedTech
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🤖 If AI can write like a clinician, who is ultimately responsible for what it gets wrong?
🔗 Toward Responsible and Privacy-Preserving Generation of Inpatient Clinical Discharge Notes Using Large Language Models. https://doi.org/10.34133/csbj.0151
📚 CSBJ Smart Hospital: https://spj.science.org/journal/csbj/smarthospital
#HealthcareAI #GenerativeAI #ArtificialIntelligence #DigitalHealth #ClinicalAI #HealthTech #MedicalAI #LargeLanguageModels #LLM #ClinicalDocumentation #PatientSafety #MedicalTechnology #ClinicalResearch #MedTech
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🤖 If AI can write like a clinician, who is ultimately responsible for what it gets wrong?
🔗 Toward Responsible and Privacy-Preserving Generation of Inpatient Clinical Discharge Notes Using Large Language Models. https://doi.org/10.34133/csbj.0151
📚 CSBJ Smart Hospital: https://spj.science.org/journal/csbj/smarthospital
#HealthcareAI #GenerativeAI #ArtificialIntelligence #DigitalHealth #ClinicalAI #HealthTech #MedicalAI #LargeLanguageModels #LLM #ClinicalDocumentation #PatientSafety #MedicalTechnology #ClinicalResearch #MedTech
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🤖 If AI can write like a clinician, who is ultimately responsible for what it gets wrong?
🔗 Toward Responsible and Privacy-Preserving Generation of Inpatient Clinical Discharge Notes Using Large Language Models. https://doi.org/10.34133/csbj.0151
📚 CSBJ Smart Hospital: https://spj.science.org/journal/csbj/smarthospital
#HealthcareAI #GenerativeAI #ArtificialIntelligence #DigitalHealth #ClinicalAI #HealthTech #MedicalAI #LargeLanguageModels #LLM #ClinicalDocumentation #PatientSafety #MedicalTechnology #ClinicalResearch #MedTech
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🤖 If AI can write like a clinician, who is ultimately responsible for what it gets wrong?
🔗 Toward Responsible and Privacy-Preserving Generation of Inpatient Clinical Discharge Notes Using Large Language Models. https://doi.org/10.34133/csbj.0151
📚 CSBJ Smart Hospital: https://spj.science.org/journal/csbj/smarthospital
#HealthcareAI #GenerativeAI #ArtificialIntelligence #DigitalHealth #ClinicalAI #HealthTech #MedicalAI #LargeLanguageModels #LLM #ClinicalDocumentation #PatientSafety #MedicalTechnology #ClinicalResearch #MedTech
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Healthcare Breaches Surge, Raising Patient Safety Concerns
Healthcare breaches are skyrocketing, sparking urgent concerns about patient safety and data protection, with a recent string of incidents exposing millions to potential harm. In just one alarming example, Aesto Health's December 2025 breach went undetected for five months, ultimately affecting 9.5 million people and…
#HealthcareBreaches #PatientSafety #DataPrivacy #EmergingThreats #HealthcareSector
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Are Non-Lexical Sounds in Clinical Conversations Disruptive to ASR?
🗣 NLCS were 2.4% of 135,647 words analyzed.
🧐 ASR WER for NLCS: 40.8% (Google), 57.2% (Amazon).
⛔️ Poor in recognizing clinically relevant NLCS.
🔍 94.7% (Google) and 98.7% (Amazon) WER for crucial NLCS.
NLCS recognition errors may threaten clinical documentation integrity.#ClinicalDocumentation #ASR #NLP #Healthcare #Technology #PatientSafety
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Local News Matters: Kaiser nurses say AI, workplace surveillance are making their jobs and patient care worse. “KAISER PERMANENTE NURSES who answer advice and triage calls say their duty of care for patients is being increasingly threatened by workplace surveillance. Seven current and former nurses told CalMatters that those who spend more than 15 minutes on a call with a patient routinely face […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/07/16/local-news-matters-kaiser-nurses-say-ai-workplace-surveillance-are-making-their-jobs-and-patient-care-worse/ -
Patient Safety Starts With Understanding
Know Your Diagnosis. Know Your Provider. Ask Better Questions. When people think about patient safety, they often think about hospitals, doctors, medications, procedures, and medical errors. But patient safety also starts with something very simple: Understanding. Understanding your diagnosis.Understanding your treatment plan.Understanding who your provider is.Understanding what questions to ask.Understanding what should happen next.Understanding when something does not feel right. Too […]https://joydropwellness.com/2026/06/29/patient-safety-starts-with-understanding/
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Missed our #CPCCGWebinar last week with Marie Konge Nielsen from the Syddansk Universitet?
🏥 Watch again as Marie explores how #nurses from three #generations experience #intergenerational exchange as a foundation for #professionalidentity development. She discusses findings that show that the exchange of knowledge and #clinical experiences between the generations will improve not only the #workingenvironment but also #treatment, #care and #patientsafety
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#SalamonSMD on X wrote:
Calling #MedTwitter and #LongCOVID, #PEM & #MECFS circles:
I am compiling evidence against graded exercise therapy. Please share your favorite papers in replies.
#PatientAdvocacy #BelievePatients #PacingNotPushing #PatientSafety #LongCovidAwareness #pwLC #PatientLed
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An AI Assistant Can Interpret Those Lab Results for You
#Health #AI #Healthcare #LabResults #ChatGPT #ClaudeAI #GeminiAI #DigitalHealth #PatientCare #HealthTech #MedicalAI #PrivacyConcerns #HealthInnovation #PatientSafety #FutureOfMedicine #GenerativeAI
https://the-14.com/an-ai-assistant-can-interpret-those-lab-results-for-you/ -
Lucy Letby case: more babies face harm unless NHS ends ‘defensive leadership’ | Lucy Letby | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/aug/27/lucy-letby-case-more-babies-face-harm-defensive-leadership-nhs-ombudsman#Letby
#NHS
#NHSManagement
#WhistleBlower
#Safety
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A very well told narrative of the Therac 25 radiation overdose incidents. Very important to understand for all medical professionals - technology can kill if due diligence is not performed
#Radonc #MedicalError #RadiationSafety #MedicalPhysics #PatientSafety #LINAC -
A very well told narrative of the Therac 25 radiation overdose incidents. Very important to understand for all medical professionals - technology can kill if due diligence is not performed
#Radonc #MedicalError #RadiationSafety #MedicalPhysics #PatientSafety #LINAC -
A very well told narrative of the Therac 25 radiation overdose incidents. Very important to understand for all medical professionals - technology can kill if due diligence is not performed
#Radonc #MedicalError #RadiationSafety #MedicalPhysics #PatientSafety #LINAC -
A very well told narrative of the Therac 25 radiation overdose incidents. Very important to understand for all medical professionals - technology can kill if due diligence is not performed
#Radonc #MedicalError #RadiationSafety #MedicalPhysics #PatientSafety #LINAC