Research & Development World

  • Home Page
  • Topics
    • Aerospace
    • Archeology
    • Automotive
    • Biotech
    • Chemistry
    • COVID-19
    • Environment
    • Energy
    • Life Science
    • Material Science
    • R&D Market Pulse
    • R&D Management
    • Physics
  • Technology
    • 3D Printing
    • A.I./Robotics
    • Battery Technology
    • Controlled Environments
      • Cleanrooms
      • Graphene
      • Lasers
      • Regulations/Standards
      • Sensors
    • Imaging
    • Nanotechnology
    • Scientific Computing
      • Big Data
      • HPC/Supercomputing
      • Informatics
      • Security
      • Software
    • Semiconductors
  • 2021 R&D 100 Award Winners
    • R&D 100 Awards
    • 2020 Winners
    • Winner Archive
  • Resources
    • Digital Issues
    • Podcasts
    • Subscribe
  • Global Funding Forecast
  • Webinars

HealthRhythms Gains NIH Grant to Improve Behavioral Health By Sensing and Stabilizing Daily Routines

By Healthrhythms | October 25, 2017

HealthRhythms, Inc., a pioneering digital health company that provides automatic assessment of behavioral health to healthcare providers, pharma, and clinical researchers, has been awarded a $2.1 million Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant by the National Institutes of Health. They received the grant to develop and validate an automated recommendation engine that delivers highly personalized and context specific behavior change suggestions to patients with depression and anxiety. This funding will expand the company’s behavior analytics to create a mobile app that functions like a highly skilled therapist who tailors treatment to each patient’s needs.

HealthRhythms’ Chief Scientific Officer, Ellen Frank, says, “Our smartphones can tell us an enormous amount about our mental wellbeing. They sense key parameters of behavior on a 24/7 basis in our own natural environments. This is pivotal to more proactive healthcare and stands in sharp contrast to the sporadic, in-clinic measurement that characterizes mental healthcare today.”

HealthRhythms’ new technology will use sensed data to make behavior change suggestions that fit patients’ routines and lifestyle. This lifestyle tuning helps patients and clinicians understand not just what behaviors to change but how to achieve these changes – critical for patients with depression who often struggle to figure out what might make them feel better. HealthRhythms’ CEO, Tanzeem Choudhury, has already shown that this method can help smartphone users with problems like weight control. She notes “More than half of those with depression – the leading cause of disability worldwide – don’t receive effective help. HealthRhythms wants to change that by making tracking behavioral health as easy as tracking steps.”

Related Articles Read More >

Unlocking the value of your scientific data
Sofar Ocean debuts Maritime Open Standard, Bristlemouth, at OCEANS 2021
The natural resources industry can no longer afford to be a digital laggard
Cambridge Quantum develops algorithm to accelerate Monte Carlo Integration on quantum computers 
2021 R&D Global Funding Forecast

Need R&D World news in a minute?

We Deliver!
R&D World Enewsletters get you caught up on all the mission critical news you need in research and development. Sign up today.
Enews Signup

R&D World Digital Issues

February 2020 issue

Browse the most current issue of R&D World and back issues in an easy to use high quality format. Clip, share and download with the leading R& magazine today.

Research & Development World
  • Subscribe to R&D World Magazine
  • Enews Sign Up
  • Contact Us
  • About Us
  • Drug Discovery & Development
  • Pharmaceutical Processing
  • 2022 Global Funding Forecast

Copyright © 2022 WTWH Media LLC. All Rights Reserved. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of WTWH Media
Privacy Policy | Advertising | About Us

Search R&D World

  • Home Page
  • Topics
    • Aerospace
    • Archeology
    • Automotive
    • Biotech
    • Chemistry
    • COVID-19
    • Environment
    • Energy
    • Life Science
    • Material Science
    • R&D Market Pulse
    • R&D Management
    • Physics
  • Technology
    • 3D Printing
    • A.I./Robotics
    • Battery Technology
    • Controlled Environments
      • Cleanrooms
      • Graphene
      • Lasers
      • Regulations/Standards
      • Sensors
    • Imaging
    • Nanotechnology
    • Scientific Computing
      • Big Data
      • HPC/Supercomputing
      • Informatics
      • Security
      • Software
    • Semiconductors
  • 2021 R&D 100 Award Winners
    • R&D 100 Awards
    • 2020 Winners
    • Winner Archive
  • Resources
    • Digital Issues
    • Podcasts
    • Subscribe
  • Global Funding Forecast
  • Webinars