[luciayhuang]

Thank you!

Thank you for bringing up the issues around racial biases when it comes to mental health. We hope to address this in multiple ways: 1) trying to incorporate objective forms of information such as digital and biological data that theoretically should be less biased 2) giving back to the community by supporting providers who serve underrepresented communities (we provide our software for free or significantly discounted to these community practices and are working with a number of them already)

And yes, we aim to incorporate various types of demographic information including social determinants of health.

[teorema]

Beware the trap of distinguishing "objective" measures/data in a space that almost by definition concerns itself with subjective experience. I also would question any assumption that such data is less prone to racial issues -- see for example volumes of literature on inequities in healthcare access and treatment.

It's great to be using quantitative measures, and almost a necessity, but as someone in this area who has done clinical work as well as research, I can say from personal experience EHR in mental healthcare has fumbled repeatedly with handling the complexities of behavioral information.

Good to see attention in this area though.