A Winston-Salem physician who previously helped to develop a crowd-sourced app to track illnesses and then later created a different app for employers to monitor COVID-19 symptoms in their employees is now tackling another component of the pandemic- depression.The web-based ZwellBeing platform launched earlier this month. It's designed to allow counselors to have more regular contact with their patients, so they can respond more effectively when they are needed most.Patients are asked to respond to questions about how they are feeling on a given day and the regularity with which they are asked to respond to these questions is customizable. Depending on their responses, there are ways for the patient to reach out to a counselor for help.Dr. Bill Satterwhite is the chief health and wellness officer for Wake Forest Baptist Health and founder of the company Sneez. He says there are components of his previous work incorporated into ZwellBeing and that the idea is for the counselor and patient be on the same page when it comes to their care."A lot of things, as it relates to mental health, are quite cyclical. So you could be doing fine this week and next week it is really going bad and so it's important to be able to see people in their time of need and that's what this tool really helps with," he says. "As a patient, I want someone to see me when I really need to be seen and candidly, I don't want to have to go in to be seen to say, 'everything's fine.'"Currently, Satterwhite says CareNet is one of his customers. He is also in talks with mental healthcare providers as far away as Georgia so they can offer his service to their patients. To learn more about ZwellBeing, visit the company's website.
A Winston-Salem physician who previously helped to develop a crowd-sourced app to track illnesses and then later created a different app for employers to monitor COVID-19 symptoms in their employees is now tackling another component of the pandemic- depression.
The web-based ZwellBeing platform launched earlier this month. It's designed to allow counselors to have more regular contact with their patients, so they can respond more effectively when they are needed most.
Patients are asked to respond to questions about how they are feeling on a given day and the regularity with which they are asked to respond to these questions is customizable. Depending on their responses, there are ways for the patient to reach out to a counselor for help.
Dr. Bill Satterwhite is the chief health and wellness officer for Wake Forest Baptist Health and founder of the company Sneez. He says there are components of his previous work incorporated into ZwellBeing and that the idea is for the counselor and patient be on the same page when it comes to their care.
"A lot of things, as it relates to mental health, are quite cyclical. So you could be doing fine this week and next week it is really going bad and so it's important to be able to see people in their time of need and that's what this tool really helps with," he says.
"As a patient, I want someone to see me when I really need to be seen and candidly, I don't want to have to go in to be seen to say, 'everything's fine.'"
Currently, Satterwhite says CareNet is one of his customers. He is also in talks with mental healthcare providers as far away as Georgia so they can offer his service to their patients. To learn more about ZwellBeing, visit the company's website.