http://money.cnn.com/2015/05/12/tec....html?iid=ob_homepage_tech_pool&iid=obnetwork
What do you guys think of this?
What do you guys think of this?
http://money.cnn.com/2015/05/12/tec....html?iid=ob_homepage_tech_pool&iid=obnetwork
What do you guys think of this?
I love that the tagline is "Investors believe in the value of textual healing" as if investors were somehow an authority on healing. People will "believe" in anything if they think they can milk some money out of it.
Don't worry. People will pay for what works. Psychotherapy cannot be reduced to text messaging. If anything else, text messaging has increased the need for patients to have real life human interactions. We are social animals, our brains are designed to operate within a social context that is driven by voice modulation, facial expression, pupil dilation, scents, touch, proximity. Probably a few other variables that go into that.I couldn't agree more. I've been in sleep medicine for over 10 years, and I've seen the steep decline and race to the bottom when it comes to diagnostics that are clinical and effective vs diagnostics that are cheap but way less effective and add so many more variables. I see sleep medicine being a sinking ship because of it, and it's really sad because the patients are the ones who'll suffer.
I don't have the same experience in psychology, but boy it sure does look similar. If things like this take off, maybe I should change majors before I accept this first student loan check... or at least tailor my experience to get in somewhere at the ground level.
What about the horrors of auto-correct?How would this even work? I text the patient, "Do you have thoughts of suicide?" They text back, "Every f*n day" Hmmm. I wonder if I should hospitalize them. Are they serious or exaggerating for some reason? In the room, I have a few clues to rely on. Patient said it with certainty and emphasis or patient said it with a grin and a wink. Huge difference.
What about the horrors of auto-correct?
Don't worry. People will pay for what works.
That placebo effect is a double edged sword, though. You get something that might work and less, but make them feel better but when it's not as effective as it should be, they relapse then you get the damning as well. Again, I don't know the field like you do I'm sure but people aren't researcher. They have no idea what works, only what makes them feel good. You're damned both ways. If it works and is positive, then it demeans more effective treatments. If it doesn't work in the long run, still makes us look bad.Don't worry. People will pay for what works. Psychotherapy cannot be reduced to text messaging. If anything else, text messaging has increased the need for patients to have real life human interactions. We are social animals, our brains are designed to operate within a social context that is driven by voice modulation, facial expression, pupil dilation, scents, touch, proximity. Probably a few other variables that go into that.
How would this even work? I text the patient, "Do you have thoughts of suicide?" They text back, "Every f*n day" Hmmm. I wonder if I should hospitalize them. Are they serious or exaggerating for some reason? In the room, I have a few clues to rely on. Patient said it with certainty and emphasis or patient said it with a grin and a wink. Huge difference.