--- title: "Bridging Innovation and Care: Evaluating Digital Health Navigators in Prescription Digital Therapeutics" description: "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’." --- [Skip to content](https://landingpage.jmirpublications.com/bridging-innovation-and-care-evaluating-digital-health-navigators-in-prescription-digital-therapeutics#main-content) ![JMIR Publications logo](https://landingpage.jmirpublications.com/hs-fs/hubfs/JMIR-Publications_logo_2020_original.png?width=550&height=109&name=JMIR-Publications_logo_2020_original.png) Open main navigation Close main navigation - [Contact us](mailto:support@jmir.org) [Contact us](mailto:support@jmir.org) ![JMH SODP HS banner](https://landingpage.jmirpublications.com/hubfs/01%20JMIR%20Mental%20Health/JMH%20SODP%20HS%20banner.jpg "JMH SODP HS banner") # **Join the next Society of Digital Psychiatry and *JMIR Mental Health* webinar** Bridging Innovation and Care: Evaluating Digital Health Navigators in Prescription Digital Therapeutics - March 24, 2026 at 3:00 PM ET ## Featured Speaker ![Headshot of Dr. Julian Schwarz, MD](https://landingpage.jmirpublications.com/hubfs/Webinar%20Circles%20(11).png "Headshot of Dr. Julian Schwarz, MD") 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](https://www.researchprotocols.org/2025/1/e67655/authors).    **[Why Should I Attend?](https://landingpage.jmirpublications.com/bridging-innovation-and-care-evaluating-digital-health-navigators-in-prescription-digital-therapeutics#Why-Should-I-Attend)** ## Why should I attend? 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.  ## Meet the Host ![headshot of John Torous](https://landingpage.jmirpublications.com/hubfs/lawrenc%20and%20cynthia%202.png "headshot of John Torous") #### John Torous, MD, MBI Dr. Torous is director of the Digital Psychiatry division in the Department of Psychiatry at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and a faculty member at Harvard Medical School. With a background in electrical engineering from UC Berkeley, he earned his MD at UC San Diego and completed his psychiatry residency, clinical informatics fellowship, and master’s in biomedical informatics at Harvard. An expert in mobile mental health technologies, he has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles and 5 book chapters. Dr. Torous also serves as Editor-in-Chief of *JMIR Mental Health*. [![JMIR Publications logo](https://landingpage.jmirpublications.com/hs-fs/hubfs/JMIR-Publications_logo_2020_original.png?width=550&height=109&name=JMIR-Publications_logo_2020_original.png "JMIR Publications logo")](http://www.jmirpublications.com) Copyright © 2026, JMIR Publications