Social networking technology is being used to deliver mental health services.
The Young Adult and Family Center at the University of California at San Francisco’s Langley Porter Psychiatric Hospital and Clinics is exploring new ground in the treatment of mental health. They have been using private and secured social networking technology to deliver services to adolescents, young adults, and veterans who might not otherwise receive the necessary care.
Dr. Kim Norman, professor of adolescent and young adult health at the University of California San Francisco, heads the program that uses private personal health social networks to create scalable clinical interventions that overcome barriers of distance, stigma, and expense that often prohibit access to healthcare for remote patients.
Clinical programs use cloud-based, medical-grade records and match up patients with families and other non-medical caretakers to provide them with access to relevant data. Norman said healing is social and technology can create collaborative care “and secure social media can serve as a virtual psychotherapy office.” He is applying this concept to integrate mental health services into chronic disease care using personal social networks. For the full article click here
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