ReviewThe Lancet. Digital health2025
Building robust, proportionate, and timely approaches to regulation and evaluation of digital mental health technologies.
Review in The Lancet. Digital health, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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Who cites it
8 citing papers in PubMed.
- Building a Science-Driven Business: How National Institutes of Health Funding Enabled an Evidence-Based Approach to Maternal Mental Health Innovation.JMIR formative research · 2026Article
- Investigating How Clinicians Form Trust in an AI-Based Mental Health Model: Qualitative Case Study.JMIR human factors · 2025Article
- Is This Chatbot Safe and Evidence-Based? A Call for the Critical Evaluation of Generative AI Mental Health Chatbots.Journal of participatory medicine · 2025Article
- Toward a New Conceptual Framework for Digital Mental Health Technologies: Scoping Review.JMIR mental health · 2025Article
- Stakeholder perceptions on institutional design of digital health regulatory frameworks: insights from Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda.Oxford open digital health · 2025Article
- Digital mental health treatment implementation playbook: successful practices from implementation experiences in American healthcare organizations.Frontiers in digital health · 2025Article
- Artificial intelligence in digital mental health technology: Considerations for regulation.Digital healthReview
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Abstract
Demand for mental health services exceeds available resources globally, and access to diagnosis and evidence-based treatment is affected by long delays. Digital mental health technologies present an opportunity to reimagine the delivery of mental health support by providing innovative, effective, and tailored approaches that meet people's individual preferences and goals. These technologies also present new challenges, however, and efforts must be made to ensure they are safe and effective. The UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency and the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence have launched a partnership, funded by Wellcome, that explores regulation and evaluation of digital mental health technologies. This Viewpoint describes a series of key challenges across the regulatory and health technology assessment pathways and aims to facilitate discussions to ensure that approaches to regulation and evaluation are informed by patients, the public, and professionals working within mental health. We invite partners from across the mental health community to engage with, collaborate with, and provide scrutiny of this project to ensure it delivers the best possible outcomes.
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