The Society of Digital Psychiatry, in collaboration with JMIR Mental Health—an open-access, peer-reviewed journal published by JMIR Publications—invites you to a webinar titled “Bridging Innovation and Care: Evaluating Digital Health Navigators in Prescription Digital Therapeutics.”
In this webinar, Dr. Julian Schwarz and Dr. John Torous will present findings from the DigiNavi pilot study—the first to evaluate the feasibility of implementing digital health navigators in routine care settings in Germany. The session will highlight practical lessons from the study, including how navigators can be integrated into clinical workflows, what training they require, how patients engage with digital therapeutics, and what factors support or hinder successful implementation in general practice and outpatient psychiatric care.
The webinar will be held on March 24, 2026, at 3 PM EST. To register, please use this link:
Speaker:
Dr. Julian Schwarz, MD
Julian Schwarz, MD, is a clinician-researcher at Brandenburg Medical School in Rüdersdorf, Germany. In his clinical role, he leads a team providing psychiatric crisis intervention at home. His research focuses on digital psychiatry, with particular interests in digital health literacy, AI-augmented patient–clinician communication in mental health, smartphone-based monitoring, and hospital-at-home models of psychiatric care.
Read Dr Schwarz related work here.
Moderator:
John Torous, MD, MBI; Cofounder, Society of Digital Psychiatry
Dr. Torous is the director of the Digital Psychiatry division in the Department of Psychiatry at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, an affiliated teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, where he also serves as a staff psychiatrist and member of the academic faculty. He has a background in electrical engineering and computer sciences; he earned his undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley, before pursuing medical school at the University of California, San Diego. Dr Torous completed his psychiatry residency, fellowship in clinical informatics, and master’s degree in biomedical informatics at Harvard. He actively investigates the potential of mobile mental health technologies for psychiatry and has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles and 5 book chapters on the subject. Dr Torous serves as the editor-in-chief of JMIR Mental Health.