It may be that we don’t need to be physically face to face to provide quality mental health care. A leader in the mental health field says that with the rapid development of smart devices, humans are able to interact with software and applications to improve mental health diagnostics and management.
Just so long as it doesn’t become a way to exclude or give 2nd rate treatment to those who can’t use,or don’t want to use, the latest smart technology.
In the coming years you will be able to use yor phone to do the diagnostics. It’s so that you will not always have to go to the doctor for everything.
Willing or not it will be pretty much inevitable. I believe it will be a positive step
I know it seems far fetched but yes at the rate it’s going they will. Doctors run off of a lot of data that they learned or can read then combine experience with it. A powerful computer can do the same thing but hold even more data.
I took tests (multiple choice) and they only work if the computer is programmed properly. They were so far out of wack, it may ask a question have you ever abused alcohol, and my answer was yes, but that was over 30 years ago, so in reality it has very little meaning now, but could kick of answers and treatments that are not required
Treatment as the preserve of the technological elite. I guess I would be ok with it if it meant more face to face interaction with those who were not technologically savvy. Otherwise it’s a backwards and reactionary step.
As a middle aged person with now chronic and not acute problems I’m very much a second rate patient here in the UK as it is. I would hate for the move towards more technology to make me a third rate patient.
It’s neat to see what is already in use. There are a lot of other things I’m skeptical about, even in the “in progress” category.
Was interesting to look at though all in all.
Computer virtualization of bodily systems and data collected from the hundreds of thousands of patients out there would be a pretty damn good reference for immediate decisions that need to be made which might “escape” the doctor’s capacity to predict how patients are going to respond to a medical technique or their need for them in the first place.
I wish I didn’t have to show up 15 mins early to sign in just to wait an hour after my appointment time to see the doc…over crowding and over booking are annoying problems tech could solve…
It’s always useful to learn a lot, especially what you can pick up online and the like.
However, that doesn’t mean you can diagnose yourself with a severe mental disorder. You have to see a mental health professional face-to-face to get the actual diagnosis.