Refresh Wellness Application: developing mental wellness tools using AI

经历心理健康挑战或精神疾病的人往往很难在工作场所获得或保持一个职位。这每年给加拿大经济造成500亿美元的损失，并导致50万公民失业。在缺乏就业的情况下，个人也会失去通过工作产生的精神、情感和生理上的好处。与外界的隔绝会进一步加剧心理疾病。作为回应，萨斯喀彻温省理工学院数字集成卓越中心(DICE)、刷新企业公司(REFRESH)和加拿大精神健康协会萨斯喀彻温省分部(CMHA-SK)正在合作完成刷新健康应用程序(RWA)的开发，这是一个多方面的生活方式计划，将通过同行和专业人员促进健康心理和促进关系支持。RWA将利用人工智能(AI)、数据分析和自动个性识别(APR)技术来自动响应用户的心理和情绪状态，提供有用的建议和资源。在个人用户的许可下，信息可以与卫生保健工作者共享，以便向他们的服务提供信息。服务提供商将能够在应用程序的业务目录中列出自己的名字。RWA将是为组织提供的首个此类服务，使它们能够通过合并通过匿名跟踪个人员工获得的数据，作为一个单一实体来分析其公司福祉。数据加密、匿名化和限制技术将保护用户的身份和信息；当地和国际数据管理法规将告知RWA如何处理敏感信息。简而言之，ReFresh Wellness App打算成为加拿大所有精神健康服务的纽带。医护人员将更好地与他们的患者建立联系，可以使用分析工具来增强他们自己的服务。组织将能够以一种全新的方式评估自己的实力，并最终捕获和利用交叉数据。

People experiencing mental wellness challenges or mental illness often struggle to obtain or maintain a position in the workplace. This costs the Canadian economy $50B/yr and results in five hundred thousand unemployed citizens. With lack of employment, individuals also lose mental, emotional, and physiological benefits generated through work. Disconnection perpetuates further psychological sickness. In response, the Digital Integration Centre of Excellence (DICE) at Saskatchewan Polytechnic (Sask Polytech), Refresh Enterprises, Inc. (Refresh), and the Canadian Mental Health Association, Saskatchewan Division (CMHA-SK) are collaborating to finalize the development of the Refresh Wellness App (RWA), a multifaceted lifestyle program that will promote healthy mentality and facilitate relational support through peers and professionals. RWA will leverage artificial intelligence (AI), data analytics, and automatic personality recognition (APR) technology in order to automatically respond to users' mental and emotional states, offering helpful suggestions and resources. With the individual user's permission, information could be shared with health care workers to inform their services. Service providers will be able to list themselves in the app's business directory. RWA will be a first-of-its-kind service for organizations, enabling them to analyze their corporate wellbeing as a single entity by merging data obtained from anonymized tracking of individual employees. Data encryption, anonymization, and limitation techniques will safeguard users' identities and information; local and international data management regulations will inform how the RWA handles sensitive information. In short, the Refresh Wellness App intends to become the nexus of all Canadian mental health services. Health care workers will be better connected to their patients, with access to analytic tools that will enhance their own services. Organizations will be able to both assess their strength in a completely new way and to eventually capture and utilize intersectional data.