Case Study: Weill Cornell Medicine achieves flexible, HIPAA-compliant CBT therapy delivery with Heady

Weill Cornell Medicine launches Maya app with Heady in 10 months

Weill Cornell Medicine, a top medical school, needed a mobile app to provide customizable cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and conduct advanced psychiatric research. Their existing app was inflexible, hard-coded, and lacked the ability to tailor treatments for different patient groups. They partnered with Heady to build a new, dynamic solution that could overcome these limitations and ensure HIPAA compliance.

Heady designed and developed the Maya app, a native iOS and Android application powered by their proprietary AMS platform. This provided Weill Cornell with a flexible CMS to create and manage infinite, customizable therapy programs without technical assistance. The solution maintained full HIPAA compliance by leveraging the school's existing infrastructure. A clinical study found the app significantly reduced anxiety in young people, demonstrating its effectiveness as a research tool and mental health treatment. Heady continues to maintain and improve the app.

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