Global Collaboration Around Digital Mental Health: The LAMP Consortium.

Abstract

Despite the great potential, there has been a lack of progress in the development of sharable and scalable tools for digital mental health due to difficulty in reproducibility and clinical application. The LAMP Platform was developed to address this gap by creating a single platform that works for a variety of clinical and research use cases. The study aims to understand how a consortium of clinical and research sites can help onboard, execute, and expand digital health research, software, and use cases. The Division of Digital Psychiatry implemented a formal consortium with goal of expanding the reach of mindLAMP as a digital mental health platform, enabling diverse studies and expanded use cases, and supportint growth of mindLAMP and consortium members’ research. The LAMP Consortium has brought together 54 sites from across the world, encouraging collaboration and idea sharing. These sites’ locations range from the USA to the Czech Republic to Australia, and apply the many features of LAMP to research, clinical, research and clinical, and industry use. The most popular features were surveys, sharing/viewing data, and GPS passive data collection. A user support network is necessary to encourage research and clinical use of the LAMP Platform. Resources like documentation, an online forum, and newsletters are essential to promote cooperation between many types of sites that is essential to advancing the field of digital mental health.