JMIR Mental Health· 2020Q1
Digital Mental Health and COVID-19: Using Technology Today to Accelerate the Curve on Access and Quality Tomorrow
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Short summary
The COVID-19 pandemic highlights the potential of digital health to improve mental healthcare access and quality, urging accelerated investment and adoption of telehealth and apps.
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Key points
- Digital health technologies, including telehealth and apps, offer a pathway to increase mental healthcare access and quality.
- The COVID-19 pandemic presents an opportunity to accelerate investment and adoption of digital mental health solutions.
- Achieving widespread digital mental health benefits requires addressing workforce training, robust evidence, and digital equity.
- The paper shares personal experiences and examples of digital health innovations from its diverse authorship.
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Abstract
As interest in and use of telehealth during the COVID-19 global pandemic increase, the potential of digital health to increase access and quality of mental health is becoming clear. Although the world today must "flatten the curve" of spread of the virus, we argue that now is the time to "accelerate and bend the curve" on digital health. Increased investments in digital health today will yield unprecedented access to high-quality mental health care. Focusing on personal experiences and projects from our diverse authorship team, we share selected examples of digital health innovations while acknowledging that no single piece can discuss all the impressive global efforts past and present. Exploring the success of telehealth during the present crisis and how technologies like apps can soon play a larger role, we discuss the need for workforce training, high-quality evidence, and digital equity among other factors critical for bending the curve further.
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Field: Applied Psychology
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