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How Clinicians Evaluate Mental Health Apps

03:55

July 01, 2016

Bob Oakes

A mobile phone displays the Cogito Companion app, which rates a patient's mood based on tone, pace and tension in his or her voice. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

As researchers test out apps that have the potential to monitor patients' mental health, developers are already flooding the market.

Dr. John Torous, of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, chairs an American Psychiatric Association task force charged with helping clinicians evaluate all these mental health apps. He joined WBUR's Morning Edition.

This segment aired on July 1, 2016.

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