Mental Health Informatics

2011 ◽  
pp. 373-390
Author(s):  
Subhagata Chattopadhyay
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Informatics

‘Adolescent and maternal mental health before during the pandemic’ – In Conversation Dr. Nicky Wright

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Informatics ◽  
Maternal Mental Health ◽  
Young Adolescent ◽  
Research Associate

This episode of our JCPP Advances series that focus on the papers and editors featured in the publication is with Dr. Nicola Wright, research associate at the department of Biostatistics and Health Informatics, Kings College London. Nicola discusses her paper 'Interplay between long-term vulnerability and new risk: Young adolescent and maternal mental health immediately before and during the COVID-19 pandemic'.

Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues (ELSI) in Mental Health Informatics

2021 ◽  
pp. 479-503
Author(s):  
Vignesh Subbian ◽  
Hannah K. Galvin ◽  
Carolyn Petersen ◽  
Anthony Solomonides
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Informatics ◽  
Social Issues

Rural and remote communities, technology and mental health recovery

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 170-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oliver K. Burmeister ◽  
Edwina Marks
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Mental Health Treatment ◽  
Health Informatics ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Social Process ◽  
Remote Access ◽  
Mental Health Recovery ◽  
Rural And Remote ◽  
Content Type

Purpose This study aims to explore how health informatics can underpin the successful delivery of recovery-orientated healthcare, in rural and remote regions, to achieve better mental health outcomes. Recovery is an extremely social process that involves being with others and reconnecting with the world. Design/methodology/approach An interpretivist study involving 27 clinicians and 13 clients sought to determine how future expenditure on ehealth could improve mental health treatment and service provision in the western Murray Darling Basin of New South Wales, Australia. Findings Through the use of targeted ehealth strategies, it is possible to increase both the accessibility of information and the quality of service provision. In small communities, the challenges of distance, access to healthcare and the ease of isolating oneself are best overcome through a combination of technology and communal social responsibility. Technology supplements but cannot completely replace face-to-face interaction in the mental health recovery process. Originality/value The recovery model provides a conceptual framework for health informatics in rural and remote regions that is socially responsible. Service providers can affect better recovery for clients through infrastructure that enables timely and responsive remote access whilst driving between appointments. This could include interactive referral services, telehealth access to specialist clinicians, GPS for locating clients in remote areas and mobile coverage for counselling sessions in “real time”. Thus, the technology not only provides better connections but also adds to the responsiveness (and success) of any treatment available.

The Future of Mental Health Informatics

2021 ◽  
pp. 505-520
Author(s):  
Gregory K. Farber ◽  
Joshua A. Gordon ◽  
Robert K. Heinssen
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Informatics ◽  
The Future

Informatics – electronic diagnostics and therapy

2010 ◽  
Vol 07 (02) ◽  
pp. 100-106
Author(s):  
P. Noakes ◽  
P. Byrne
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Health Informatics ◽  
Substance Misuse ◽  
Evidence Base ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Informatics System ◽  
Interacting Systems ◽  
Diagnostics And Therapy

SummaryMental health professionals did not ask for it, but the proliferation of health informatics and the integration of connectivity into our daily lives will facilitate and improve mental health outcomes – provided change is clinician-driven. To date, no one informatics system achieved dominance and there is no consensus about how to proceed. Key systems’ components are identified. There are multiple technical, clinical, ethical and financial considerations that have delayed the routine use of these systems even in highly developed health services. Several interacting systems are discussed across general medical and mental health services. Informatics can assist with the diagnosis of some mental health conditions (anxiety, mood and substance misuse disorders), and a balance needs to be struck between excessive self-diagnoses and empowered patients. Allied systems, for example telemedicine, can assist clinicians in physical and many mental health disorders, but less so, severe enduring mental illness. Computerised therapies have a growing evidence base but may not suit every patient and all disorders. Once electronic databases are established across psychiatry, they will be used outside the clinical arena to pursue diverse research and economic agendae, with other uses as yet undefined. We conclude by speculating on possible future developments.

Mental Health Informatics

2021 ◽  
pp. 121-154
Author(s):  
Piper A. Ranallo ◽  
Jessica D. Tenenbaum
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Informatics
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