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John Torous
Researcher at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Publications - 377
Citations - 14976
John Torous is an academic researcher from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. The author has contributed to research in topics: Mental health & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 46, co-authored 307 publications receiving 8444 citations. Previous affiliations of John Torous include University of California, San Francisco & National Institute for Health and Care Excellence.
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Creating a Digital Health Smartphone App and Digital Phenotyping Platform for Mental Health and Diverse Healthcare Needs: an Interdisciplinary and Collaborative Approach
John Torous,Hannah Wisniewski,Bruce Bird,Elizabeth Carpenter,Gary C. David,Eduardo Elejalde,Daniel Fulford,Synthia Guimond,Ryan Hays,Philip Henson,Liza Hoffman,Chun Lim,Michael Menon,Valerie A. Noel,John F. Pearson,Randy Peterson,Ammu Susheela,Haley Troy,Aditya Vaidyam,Emma Weizenbaum,John A. Naslund,Matcheri S. Keshavan +21 more
TL;DR: The motivation, features, current progress, and next steps to pair the LAMP platform for use in a new digital psychiatry clinic, to advance digital interventions for youth mental health, and to bridge gaps in available mental health care for underserved patient groups are explored.
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Mental Health Mobile Phone App Usage, Concerns, and Benefits Among Psychiatric Outpatients: Comparative Survey Study.
TL;DR: The results of low but similar rates of mental health app use at diverse clinics suggests DMH patients with largely psychotic disorders are as interested and engaged with apps as those in a private insurance clinic treating largely mood and anxiety disorders.
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Guidelines for wrist-worn consumer wearable assessment of heart rate in biobehavioral research.
Benjamin W. Nelson,Benjamin W. Nelson,Carissa A. Low,Nicholas C. Jacobson,Patricia A. Areán,John Torous,Nicholas B. Allen +6 more
TL;DR: A brief overview of research using commercial wearable devices to measure heart rate, reviews literature on device accuracy, and outlines the challenges that non-standardized reporting pose for the field are provided.
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The Ethical Use of Mobile Health Technology in Clinical Psychiatry.
John Torous,Laura Weiss Roberts +1 more
TL;DR: An ethical perspective on the practical use of mobile technologies by psychiatrists is provided and a decision-tree model for implementing ethical safeguards in practice is developed, focused on managing risk to the therapeutic relationship, informed consent, confidentiality, and mutual alignment of treatment goals and expectations.