{"id":7841,"date":"2017-01-16T16:28:09","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T21:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/?p=7841"},"modified":"2017-02-21T16:50:01","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T21:50:01","slug":"proxi-app-places-friends-and-family-on-mental-health-care-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/2017\/proxi-app-places-friends-and-family-on-mental-health-care-teams\/","title":{"rendered":"Proxi App Places Friends and Family on Mental Health Care Teams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many people with mental illness rely on friends and relatives for help and encouragement, notes\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/faculty\/facultydb\/view.php?uid=4648\">William Hudenko<\/a>, a professor of psychiatry at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/\">Geisel School of Medicine<\/a>. Hudenko believes those \u201cnatural supports\u201d should be part of the patient\u2019s health care team.<\/p>\n<p>But federal confidentiality rules prevent doctors from sharing information about their patients. So Hudenko has worked with colleagues at Dartmouth to develop software that complies with federal law by allowing the patient, rather than the doctor, to create a network of helpers and authorize them to communicate online with each other. It\u2019s called Proxi-Connect, and Hudenko believes it has the potential to transform mental health treatment through better care.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI show my patients on a computer how they can use this technology to identify the people in their lives who help them feel better and make progress,\u201d says Hudenko. \u201cIf the patient agrees and signs a release of information, I can talk to all of them and they can talk to me and to each other. Communication among the Proxi team changes everything, because I know so much more than I learn just from spending an hour a week with my patient.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hudenko also helped to develop an app called Proxi-Reach. He demonstrates it on his smart phone using a fictional patient named Jane, who is battling depression. \u201cThere\u2019s her picture in the center of the screen,\u201d he says, \u201cand surrounding her are the photos or names of people she trusts to help her when she needs it. If they download the app, they get an email inviting them to join her circle of care.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.dartmouth.edu\/news\/2017\/01\/proxi-app-places-friends-and-family-mental-health-care-teams\" target=\"_blank\">Read more at news.dartmouth.edu...<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe see this as a way to transform mental health treatment,\u201d says Geisel\u2019s William Hudenko.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":7842,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,8],"tags":[808,37,436,60,807],"class_list":["post-7841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-research","tag-apps","tag-mental-health","tag-synergy","tag-technology","tag-william-hudenko","author-15"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/01\/hedenko_prox-rgill.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4r3h1-22t","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7841"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7844,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7841\/revisions\/7844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}