Patient Innovation in Investigating Effects of Environmental Pollution in Schizophrenia: Case Report of Digital Phenotyping Beyond Apps.

UNSTRUCTURED: This patient perspective highlights the role of patients in the innovation and co-design of digital mental health technology. Though digital mental health apps have evolved and become highly functional, many still act as data collection silos without adequate support for patients to understand and investigate potentially meaningful inferences in their own data. Few digital health platforms respect the patient's agency and curiosity, allowing the individual to wear the hat of researcher and data scientist to share their experiences and insight with their clinicians. This case is cowritten with an individual with lived experiences in schizophrenia who has decided to openly share their name and experiences to share with others the methods and results of their curiosity and encourage and inspire others to follow their curiosity as well.