Something that occurs annually in the United States is the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Conference on Mental Health Services Research. This meeting brings together leading mental health service researchers, clinicians, mental health advocates and federal and nonfederal partners to discuss innovative solutions to improve mental health problems. At the 23rd annual conference in August 2016, Jeff Olivet led a panel called “Harnessing Technology to Revolutionize Behavioral and Mental Healthcare (“Mental Health Technology Presentation”), The development of technology in the last decade has spurred discussion on whether the development of apps or platforms to better coordinate care would be beneficial. There has been a burst of mental health focused apps and many startups have addressed mental health from various perspectives. For example, the startup Lantern provides personalized programming of personal coaching and daily exercise to improve emotional well-being. The search engine Google rolled out a screening tool to help people figure out if they have clinical depression. If people search clinical depression, a pop-up will come up and if clicked, will redirect them a clinically validated screening questionnaire and self-assessment.