Patients who used a mobile monitoring system with clinician access experienced significant improvement in depressive symptoms and psychological health compared with those who received usual care, according to results of a randomized clinical trial published in JAMA Network Open.

“What was particularly exciting about this platform was that monitoring was accessible to both patients and their clinicians,” Danielle Blanch-Hartigan, PhD, MPH, of the department of natural and applied sciences at Bentley University in Massachusetts, told Healio Psychiatry. “As someone who studies the interactions between patients and clinicians, I'm excited by the myriad possibilities for mobile sensing tools as an additional form of information exchange and their potential to foster communication.”