Harmony: mHealth framework for managing severe mental illnesses

Abstract

In India, patients with severe mental illnesses (SMI) generally have their family members as caregivers. It becomes difficult for the caregiver to monitor the patients activites and behavior closely and communicate the same to the doctor. A close analysis of patients behaviour can lead to interesting insights which could further help in his/her treatment. Harmony is an attempt to fill this communication gap between the patient, caregiver and doctor. Apart from monitoring a patients usage of the phone, it also asks the caregiver to enter the daily activities of the patient. All this data is saved on a cloud platform which can be used by the doctors anytime via the web portal.