Digital health as a support tool for waiting lists in mental health services
The need for mental health support is growing in Europe, but waiting lists are becoming longer as mental health services...
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The Momentum Trial: How digital tools can support patient-centered care & shared decision-making
Monsenso is proud to be part of the Momentum Trial, a study investigating how using a smartphone app as a...
DIPNOT: A Research Project to Improve Psychotherapeutic Treatment for People with Depression
Monsenso is proud to be part of the Development of an Intervention for Persistent Not On Track (DIPNOT) research project...
World Mental Health Day 2022
10th October is World Mental Health Day, aiming at shining light on the prevalence of mental ill health globally and...
Digitalization could help tackle the issue of lacking resources in mental health services
Lack of resources present a significant challenge in Danish mental health services. Digitalization could help tackle these issues.
Our future tech-savvy clinicians: What can we expect and how do we get there?
It is no secret that our world is constantly changing towards becoming more digitized, and so is healthcare. But exactly...
UK National Schizophrenia Awareness Day 2022 – A mental illness in need of destigmatization
The UK National Schizophrenia Awareness Day aims at shining light on what it means to live with schizophrenia, an often...
Top pain points in the delivery of mental healthcare and how digital technology can help
There are many challenges in access to mental healthcare, and the use of digital technology could offer the potential to...
New research: Can smartphone data be a digital marker for discriminating bipolar disorder from unipolar disorder?
New research suggests smartphone data on mobility patterns could be a promising digital diagnostic marker for discriminating bipolar disorder from...
Monsenso has signed an agreement with Awakn Life Sciences, a global biotech company
Monsenso has signed an agreement with, a global biotech company, to support the company’s medical psychedelic treatments. Awakn Life Sciences...
Mental health in an unequal world. World Mental Health Day 2021
Mental health, why bother if all goes well? Because the day it hits you or your loved ones, you may...
Mental health affects all aspects of our life. Yet, it’s the most neglected area
Mental health affects all aspects of our life. Yet, it’s the most neglected area of public health, resulting in comorbidity...
A smartphone app that can help psychiatrists diagnose mental illness
Peter Hagelund talks about his experience of getting the wrong diagnosis and how finally after six years he got the...
Getting started with mHealth technology for mental health
Getting started with mHealth technology for mental health can seem like a daunting process even though it has proven to...
mHealth solutions can improve health outcomes in a cost-efficient way
MHealth solutions can improve health outcomes in a cost-efficient and scalable way. They assist medical professionals with management and documentation...
mHealth tools can increase patient engagement
There are now 318,000 mHealth apps available in the market, that number has nearly doubled since 2015 driven by increased...
What Is the difference between a health app and an mhealth solution?
Over the past few years, mHealth solutions have begun to solve some of the problems that are ailing healthcare. MHealth...
Big Data in treating mental disorders
Big data in treating mental disorders explains how data is transforming the treatment of mental disorders and the overall life...
A smartphone app that supports patient empowerment
In this video, Monsenso user Mads Trier-Blom speaks of his experience using the Monsenso app as a part of a...
“mHealth for better mental health treatment” Kristoffer Södersten’s Customer Story
Swedish Psychiatrist Kristoffer Södersten shares his experience using the Monsenso clinic to help treat his clients, and talks about how...
Six Aims of High Quality Healthcare (Infographic)
In 1998, the Quality Chasm series was launched by the Institute of Medicine which included an informative report about delivering high...
Using mobile technology to reduce hospital re-admissions
The U.S Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HiMSS) released a report titled “Leveraging mobile technology to reduce hospital readmissions.”...
The top cause of insurance claims is mental illness
The top cause of insurance claims is now mental illness. According to a new study, two-thirds of British adults have...
Telehealth for mental healthcare, a scalable solution
Telehealth for mental healthcare makes a lot of sense since mental health care is generally harder to access than other...
mHealth -scalable and cost-effective mental healthcare
mHealth provides the opportunity to offer scalable and cost-effective mental healthcare. One of the greatest challenges the healthcare systems face...
Why pharma can benefit from mHealth solutions
Pharma can benefit from mHealth solutions by using them in clinical trials and by offering them to HCPs as part...
How mHealth Solutions can improve the research methodology of clinical trials
Using mHealth solutions for clinical trials as data-collection tools, can potentially revolutionise clinical research. Wearable devices and mobile health solutions...
Can mHealth technology be used to save costs ?
According to an article published on Harvard Business Review, digital health tools have the potential to provide effective, low-cost ways...
Smartphones as data-collection tools for mental health
Smartphones are promising data-collection tools for mental health, since there are are already 4.5 billion mobile phone users world-wide.
Using mHealth solutions to improve patient engagement
With telemedicine, mobile health (mHealth) solutions, and wearable devices, the future of better patient engagement is certainly favourable. Patients are...
Identifying postnatal depression with mHealth technology
Baby Blues occur within the first three days after birth and may last until a few weeks later. It is...
MHealth, a scalable and cost-efficient solution for mental healthcare
Preventive measures such as mental health promotion and early intervention are the most cost-effective way to tackle mental illness on...
Hospital policies make it tougher to get high-quality inpatient mental health treatment
Technology start-ups are disrupting many existing business models, including the insurance industry. Most of the current trends in the insurance...
MHealth, a cost-efficient solution for insurance companies
Technology start-ups are disrupting many existing business models, including the insurance industry. Most of the current trends in the insurance...
Using apps for mental health
Improved awareness and recognition of mental health problems and their complexity puts pressure on health systems to increase care. In...
Using voice analysis to identify peaks on bipolar disorder
Clinical observations suggest that changes in speech features have been suggested as valid measures, to identify periods of depression and...
Smartphone apps to improve mental healthcare
According to the Ecnp/EBC Report 2011, 165 million people or 38% of the population in Europe are affected by a...
Clinicians to monitor cardiovascular disease markers for teens suffering from mental illness
According to a recent statement by the new American Heart Association (AHA), major depressive disorder and bipolar disorder should be...
Caring for carers (Infographic)
Family caregivers are essential in helping people suffering from mental illness integrate into the community. However, this role is often...
Monsenso, mHealth for mental health (Infographic)
Monsenso, mHealth for mental health helps optimise the treatment of most major mental illnesses such as bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, borderline,...
The long-term care of individuals suffering from severe mental illness
The long-term care of people suffering from severe mental disorders is one of the most significant challenges for the health...
Children and adolescent mental health facts (infographic)
The World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH) recently released a Report on Mental Health and Well-being for children titled “Healthy...
Mental health a global priority- The WHO action plan
“Making Mental Health a Global Priority” is a two-day high-level meeting hosted by the World Bank Group and World Health Organization (WHO)...
Using mHealth for suicide prevention
Using mHealth for suicide prevention is cost-effective and scalable. Every year, more than 800,000 people take their own lives and...
Including mental health in the global health and development agenda
Why are mental disorders and substance use disorders treated so much differently than other health conditions? This is just one...
Smartphone-based CBT aims to reduce hospital readmissions 50%
Smartphone-based CBT aims to help individuals with depression and bipolar disorder, since these are two of the leading causes of...
Is social media increasing the levels of anxiety and depression amongst youths?
While social networks offer an opportunity to connect and interact with friends and family, there are also many downsides to...
Improving the treatment of postpartum depression in teenage mothers
Postpartum depression (PPD) is a mood disorder that can affect women after giving birth, and the symptoms are similar to...
Borderline Personality Disorder in Adolescents
Most psychiatric disorders cause a permanent abnormal social behaviour, whereas borderline personality disorder only causes brief psychotic episodes. As a...
An increasing demand for mental health services by university students
In 2015, the increasing demand for mental health care services by university students raised a huge concern amongst teachers, parents...
Smartphone-based DBT will begin clinical trials for borderline treatment
Monsenso will begin clinical trials of smartphone-based DBT (Dialectical Behavioural Therapy) for patients with Borderline Personality Disorder in collaboration with...
Monsenso will begin clinical trials for anxiety
Monsenso will begin clinical trials to support the treatment of anxiety disorder in collaboration with The Mental Health Services in...
A holistic approach to treating schizophrenia
Over the last few decades, there has been a shift in the way we think about mental illness, particularly schizophrenia....
Empowering patients with digital technology
On the previous blog post, “Transforming health and social care with digital technology” connected health or technology-enabled care (TEC) was...
Transforming health and social care with digital technology
Earlier this year, Deloitte published a report titled “Connected Health: How Digital technology is transforming health and social care.” The...
10 facts on Mental Health (Infographic)
Approximately 20% of the world’s children and adolescents are affected by mental disorders. Mental illnesses and substance abuse are the...
The importance of early intervention in the recovery process
Early intervention is critical to treating mental illness before it can cause tragic results such as serious impairment, unemployment, homelessness,...
Improving the treatment of bipolar disorder with mobile health technology
Bipolar disorder, also known as manic-depressive illness, is a brain disorder that causes unusual shifts in mood, energy, activity levels,...
ADHD (Infographic)
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a common neurobiological condition affecting 5-8% of school-age children.
Borderline disorder (Infographic)
Borderline disorder is a behavioural illness marked by unstable moods, behaviour and relationships. The disorder usually begins during late adolescence,...
Eating disorders (Infographic)
It is estimated that 50% of teenage girls, and 30% teenage boys use unhealthy weight control behaviours such as skipping...
The use of mobile health technology to support the treatment of anxiety
Experiencing occasional anxiety is a normal part of life. However, people with anxiety disorders frequently have intense, excessive and persistent...
Research funding for mental health in the UK (infographic)
For every £1 the UK government spends on cancer research, the UK general public invest £2.75 while the amount spent...
The MONARCA system for Bipolar disorder – The foundation of Monsenso
The top cause of insurance claims is now mental illness. According to a new study, two-thirds of British adults have...
Bipolar disorder (Infographic)
What is bipolar disorder? Bipolar disorder is an affective disorder that is categorized by unusual shifts in mood, energy, and...
Postpartum Depression (Infographic)
It is estimated that 10 to 15% of new adult mothers develop Postpartum Depression (PPD) within the first year after...