OHT Mental Health

The digital therapeutics attrition problem isn’t a motivation problem. It’s a design, measurement, and system problem. By Mat Rawsthorne I recently hosted a coffee chat for the One HealthTech Mental Health Network on what I’ve started calling the “ghosting problem” in digital therapeutics. The room included founders, NHS consultants, user researchers, a health psychologist, and people building everything from VR mental health tools to ADHD screening platforms. A common theme

Written by Kevin Flanagan At a recent virtual coffee morning we discussed how as artificial intelligence is increasingly integrated into healthcare systems, there’s a tendency to view its deployment as a technical challenge. However, deploying algorithms into mental healthcare is not a neutral technological upgrade. It is the active encoding of a very specific worldview. My hypothesis is we may be facing a Black Swan type event in mental health AI, driven by deeply flawed bas

Many of us know that ADHD is often misunderstood, with people hearing statements such as “just use a planner” or “why can you not apply yourself?”. Stereotypes about people with ADHD being lazy, careless, or easily distracted often overshadow the complex reality of living with ADHD. Attention is not simply absent, it can be dysregulated, and initiating tasks is not a sign of laziness but often a struggle with executive function. Many live with constant internal noise and jugg

A summary of our recent OHT Mental Health Network coffee discussion held on Thursday 27 th November. What if the traits we label as "attention deficit" were once essential for human survival? And what if our modern environments, not our brains, are the real mismatch? These were the questions that sparked a lively and deeply personal conversation during our recent coffee hour, hosted by Klaudia and Kevin. With nearly 20 participants sharing their experiences, insights, and

by Kevin Flanagan, OHT Fellow At a recent One Health Tech panel discussion titled " Are We Playing Whack-a-Mole with Mental Health ?", panellists Meera Moore Danowski , Chris Hazen , and Breda Spillane came together to tackle a pressing question: why does our approach to mental health keep producing the same stubbornly limited results despite a century of innovation? The conversation revealed an uncomfortable truth: we're treating mental health like it's a broken bone, when