Stanford
Mental Health Technology and Innovation Hub

About

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About the Tech Hub

The Mental Health Technology and Innovation Hub (the "Tech Hub") is a Special Initiative of the Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine, Dr. Laura Roberts. We are a collaborative group of clinicians, researchers, educators, trainees, faculty, and staff with an interest in the intersection of mental health, innovation, and technology.

Some of the implementations of mental health technology at Stanford include:

  • Web and app-based interventions for mental health self-care as well as provider-delivered care
  • Use of technology to enhance educational experience for trainees
  • Scalable applications that leverage natural language processing (NLP),  machine learning (ML), and Large Language Models (LLMs) to create personalized health inventories, interventions, and scalable training technologies
  • Wearable hardware that collects and computes big data to identify and interpret behavioral biomarkers, and provide insights and actionable feedback
  • Social media platforms, conversational agents, and socially assistive robots (SARs) that aim to foster belonging and connection
  • Immersive technologies such as Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality (VR and AR) that can address mental health conditions and enhance well-being