Mental health informatics
Mental health informatics is a branch of health or clinical informatics concerned with the use of information technology (IT) and information to improve mental health. Like health informatics, mental health informatics is a multidisciplinary field that promotes care delivery, research and education [1] as well as the technology and methodologies required to implement it.
Major areas of mental health informatics activity include:
- Terminology and coding systems such as the (DSM) [2]
- Specific mental health assessment [3] and diagnostic [4] systems
- Study of the incidence of mental health in a public health and epidemiological context [5]
- Integration of mental health function into electronic health record systems (EHRs) and larger organisational systems
- Telehealth, telemedicine and telepsychiatry
- Special IT considerations for mental health systems, e.g., privacy, Computer security, Safety-critical system and data protection compliance
- Software development and usage skills relevant to mental health informatics.[6]
Need for mental health informatics
The need for and application of health informatics in primary and secondary health care has been well established in developed countries for 20 years or more.[7] The application of informatics in mental health has not become as pervasive, in spite of professional recognition[8][9][10] the domain appearing well suited to computerisation [11] and the need for quantified outcome evidence.[12] A major impediment may be societal stigma associated with mental disorders as well as increased sensitivity about protecting the privacy and confidentiality of records in mental health care. There also may be a professional reluctance to effect changes in established working patterns that the introduction of systems necessarily entails.[13]
References
- ↑ http://www.clinfowiki.org/wiki/index.php?title=Mental_health_informatics
- ↑ https://www.nimh.nih.gov/news/science-news/2017/different-approaches-to-understanding-and-classifying-mental-disorders.shtml
- ↑ https://sdqinfo.org
- ↑ https://www.dawba.info
- ↑ Ardis Hanson and Bruce Lubotsky Levin. Mental Health Informatics. Oxford University Press USA, 2013, 288 pp, ISBN 9780195183023.
- ↑ https://doc.lagout.org/programmation/python/Methods%20in%20Medical%20Informatics%20-%20Fundamentals%20of%20Healthcare%20Programming%20in%20Perl%2C%20Python%2C%20and%20Ruby%20%282010%29.pdf
- ↑ Smith MF. Computer Systems in Healthcare: Management and Strategy. Kindle (2012) ISBN 978-1-301-36918-8.
- ↑ http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/policyandparliamentary/informaticscommittee.aspx
- ↑ http://www.healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk/news/newsfiles/Netta_Hollings_61.pdf
- ↑ https://www.omicsonline.org/scholarly/mental-health-informatics-journals-articles-ppts-list.php
- ↑ Rotheray, S., D. Racey, L. Rodgers, S. McGilloway, V. Berry and T. Ford (2014). "Innovations in practice: Further evidence on the effectiveness of the strengths and difficulties added value score as an outcome measure for child and adolescent services." Child and Adolescent Mental Health 19(4): 270-273.DOI: 10.1111/camh.12059
- ↑ Stringaris, A. and R. Goodman (2009). "Longitudinal outcome of youth oppositionality: Irritable, headstrong, and hurtful behaviors have distinctive predictions." Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 48(4): 404-412.DOI: 10.1097/CHI.0b013e3181984f30
- ↑ http://sdq-dawba.dk/interview-goodman/