Stephen Schueller

So excited for the #ISRII13 conference and kicking it off with a keynote from @maryczerwinski.bsky.social @isrii.bsky.social

Young Researchers Featured at Conference of Society for Digital Mental Health An interdisciplinary gathering at the 2025 virtual conference of the Society for Digital Mental Health heard presentations and panel discussions on digital therapeutics, along with reports of studies ...

Great write up in Psychiatric Times of the "Best of Conference" student awards at the recent #SDMH2025 @sdmh.bsky.social meeting.

www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/young-r...

So inspiring to see the amazing research of these rising scientists and the next generation of digital mental health leaders

Really excited for this panel at @isrii.bsky.social #ISRII2025 still time to register to see us in August!!

#sdmh2025 #sdmh2025 | Stephen Schueller Society for Digital Mental Health's 2025 Conference #SDMH2025 kicked off its programming today with a jam-packed day. Although I'm still distilling the insights from the keynote, panel, ask an...

That's a wrap, another great panel, I'll try to summarize some overall thoughts later on my LinkedIn, check out my recap of yesterday's keynote www.linkedin.com/posts/stephe... and stay tuned for more updates from #SDMH2025 @sdmh.bsky.social

Tip from Michael Pace that "tokenization is tops" ensure you can always track the potential good and bad with a user, need to make sure proper de-identification of data to really track consumer journey and understand impact in a data-driven way #SDMH2025 @sdmh.bsky.social

Jeffrey Abraham notes that we have to remember that these are customer services, similar to our reframing of digital mental health as technology-enabled services, not products: psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/... w/ @davidcmohr.bsky.social #SDMH2025 @sdmh.bsky.social

Panel also notes the recent RFI from CMS on the health information health technology ecosystem: www.cms.gov/newsroom/pre... notes that we need to continue to repeat messaging and that some of the important steps are not bright and shiny @sdmh.bsky.social #SDMH2025

Another emphasis on the FDA's risk-based approach and noting that some #digitalmentalhealth may be low-risk, of course we probably need better research on some of the real-risks of digital mental health #SDMH2025 @sdmh.bsky.social

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Panel brings up innovative attempts by states to implement #digitalmentalhealth like California's funding of Soluna for youth mental health solunaapp.com #SDMH2025 @sdmh.bsky.social

One challenge in this space is understanding of what #digitalmentalhealth is, i.e., differences between teletherapy and digital mental health, especially a problem as dmh continues to evolve and change as noted by @davidcmohr.bsky.social in his opening to Day 2 of #SDMH2025 @sdmh.bsky.social

The panel emphasizes that supporting digital mental health is not just a national/federal issue but also a state-issue, that advocacy needs to happen at state as well as federal levels #SDMH2025 @sdmh.bsky.social

Panel emphasizes that this is a moment in time but we need to make use of this moment in time by leveraging - demand, advocacy, and evidence. People need to want it, we need to show it works, and we need to advocate for the use of these products given their benefits #SDMH2025 @sdmh.bsky.social

The PHTI report on virtual solutions for depression and anxiety comes up again phti.org/assessment/v... and the importance of our field being involved and aware of digital evaluation bodies @sdmh.bsky.social #SDMH2025

Emphasizes talking early and often with the FDA, touch base with the responsible review team ahead of time, don't show up with data in hand #SDMH2025 @sdmh.bsky.social

Jumping in to talk about FDA clearance in #digitalmentalhealth notes misunderstanding of FDA clearance identifying the need to understand product codes, that FDA has cleared over 1,000+ AI enabled-devices starting in the 90s, and that FDA takes a risk-based approach #SDMH2025 @sdmh.bsky.social

The panel starts out talking about the recent new codes for digital mental health treatments: nixonlawgroup.com/nlg-blog/202... Jeffrey Abraham mentions very few instances of the use of codes so far, maybe 200-300 #SDMH2025 @sdmh.bsky.social

Day 2 of #SDMH2025 kicks off with a policy spotlight with Aubrey Shick, Christina Strogis, Jeffrey Abraham, Michael Pace and moderated by Trina Histon @sdmh.bsky.social #TYDE

It is time to ensure research access to platform data - Nature Human Behaviour Nature Human Behaviour - It is time to ensure research access to platform data

This paper on ensuring research access to platform data www.nature.com/articles/s41... came up in our conversation about data donation and its use in research #SDMH2025 @sdmh.bsky.social #TYDE

@munmun10.bsky.social notes that data collection is based on the archival features of this platforms, these features can shift which can cause challenges to research projects and has experienced a lot of these shifts in her own research, "We're always playing catch up" #SDMH2025 @sdmh.bsky.social

@xiaoransun.bsky.social talks about the insights she's gained from youth participatory work and how focus groups and listening to youth really help her frame her own research questions #SDMH2025 @sdmh.bsky.social #TYDE

@benji700.bsky.social asks about the insights from data donation - what is needed to advance the field, more data? better data? @orbenamy.bsky.social emphasizes the challenge of "found data" insights come from data that is available, doesn't overcome the need for good self-report measures #SDMH2025

@munmun10.bsky.social shares their CANDOR Data Donation Portal: vorcha.cc.gatech.edu for those interested in doing data donation in their own research #SDMH2025 @sdmh.bsky.social #TYDE

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@orbenamy.bsky.social calls out their collaboration with the Smart Data Donation Service at the University of York: www.sdruk.ukri.org/data/smart-d... #SDMH2025 @sdmh.bsky.social #TYDE

Another question - how do we support understanding around data donation @orbenamy.bsky.social in some of their studies have a quiz during consent to look at understanding, also talks about an interim step to let them visualize their data before they donate it for research purposes #SDMH2025

@orbenamy.bsky.social discusses the need for researchers to think carefully about what data they need ahead of time to help address issues of data security and privacy and also help researchers actually make use of that data #SDMH2025 @sdmh.bsky.social #TYDE

@munmun10.bsky.social uses the example of the AOL search log release: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_sea... #SDMH2025 I'm one of the ones old enough to remember having to dial in to AOL #SDMH2025 @sdmh.bsky.social

@munmun10.bsky.social discusses the challenges with de-identifying data collected through data donation methods. Given the amount of data de-identification often cannot be done manually, existing tools that automate this often are not perfect, maybe can de-identify 90%ish of the data #SDMH2025

@xiaoransun.bsky.social talks about the timeline of collecting and analyzing this data - building trust and partnerships takes time, going through proper procedures for security takes time, analyzing the data, with the wealth of data available, takes A LOT of time #SDMH2025 @sdmh.bsky.social

Panelists note youth are often open to data donation, given the tech companies are collecting the data anyways, like to see their data contribute to good purposes like researcher - again if you can make trust with the participants #SDMH2025 @sdmh.bsky.social #TYDE