Tech’s Role in Mental Health – Healthcare IT Today Podcast Episode 64

For the 64th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re talking about Tech’s Role in Mental Health.  Even before COVID-19, mental health was a really important topic.  Due to a wide variety of reasons including prominent stigmas around mental health, many of the mental health issues weren’t being addressed as they should.  Of course, the pandemic has accelerated and highlighted many of the mental health issues that plague us.

Like is often the case, technology has a double sided impact on mental health.  In some ways it exacerbates the problem, but it also provides new opportunities to be able to scale mental health and to avoid stigmas associated with it.  In this episode we dive into both sides of technology and mental health as we discuss the following topics:

  • Tech’s impact on mental health in healthcare
  • Accessibility of mental health resources and professionals
  • Can a mental health app replace a mental health professional?
  • New focus on mental health because of pandemic

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John Lynn

John Lynn is the Founder of HealthcareScene.com, a network of leading Healthcare IT resources. The flagship blog, Healthcare IT Today, contains over 13,000 articles with over half of the articles written by John. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 20 million times.

John manages Healthcare IT Central, the leading career Health IT job board. He also organizes the first of its kind conference and community focused on healthcare marketing, Healthcare and IT Marketing Conference, and a healthcare IT conference, EXPO.health, focused on practical healthcare IT innovation. John is an advisor to multiple healthcare IT companies. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can be found on Twitter: @techguy.

   

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