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The evolving field of digital mental health: current evidence and implementation issues for smartphone apps, generative artificial intelligence, and virtual reality

The expanding domain of digital mental health is transitioning beyond traditional telehealth to incorporate smartphone apps, virtual reality, and generative artificial intelligence, including large language models. While industry setbacks and methodological critiques have highlighted gaps in evidence and challenges in scaling these technologies, emerging solutions rooted in co-design, rigorous evaluation, and implementation science offer promising pathways forward. This paper underscores the dual necessity of ad…

Health · The Trace — both readings · certified 2026-07-24 · v1 · article view · machine-readable

Current reading — gain

Smartphone apps, virtual reality, and generative AI including large language models show utility across well-being and clinical conditions and can positively impact mental health care when deployed as tools to augment and extend care.

Current reading — problem

Digital mental health tools are hampered by engagement challenges, industry setbacks, methodological critiques, and gaps in evidence and scaling that limit real-world applicability.

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The field still lacks rigorous placebo-controlled and real-world studies, and faces persistent engagement and scaling challenges that limit generalizability.

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Truvace Impact Record TRV-2026-0523, v1: “The evolving field of digital mental health: current evidence and implementation issues for smartphone apps, generative artificial intelligence, and virtual reality.” Truvace, 2026-07-24. /record/TRV-2026-0523 (accessed at citation time). sha256 e8eeeee027e379df…

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