
This will be a busy year as the role of new digital tools in medicine converge to offer novel opportunities to clinical care.

Dr Torous is Director of the Division of the Digital Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), Harvard Medical School.

This will be a busy year as the role of new digital tools in medicine converge to offer novel opportunities to clinical care.

Can mobile technologies advance care for schizophrenia? The research literature strongly supports feasibility, although clinical data on validity, safety, and efficacy are still lacking.

How will mobile mental health technologies change the nature of the psychiatrist-patient relationship? And do these technologies truly deliver what they promise?

Many questions remain about privacy, ethics, and clinical utility, but the fact remains, mobile is the fastest growing technology in human history.