A Peek At Some Of The New Treatment Technology

April 19, 2012
Last weeks' National Council Mental Health and Addictions Conference had a very interesting session – Interactive Communication Technologies: The Future is Now. In this session, led by National Council's Mike Lardiere, David Gustafson of University of Wisconsin-Madison and I were the panelists in a review of five emerging new treatment technologies – ACHESS, Vignet, M3Clinician, HealthSim, and Cobalt Therapeutics.

Addiction CHESS Project (ACHESS) – ACHESS is based on the Comprehensive Health Enhancement Support System (CHESS), and is developing and testing a smartphone-based relapse-prevention system to help alcohol dependent patients by providing communication with peer support groups . . .