The Future of Mental Health(care) in a Digital, Intelligence Augmented World

Abstract

Due to higher and more complex demand for care, new technologies, and changing patient expectations, mental healthcare is emancipating from its 19th-century past to a 21st century paradigm that holds a lot of promise. The future of mental health promotion and protection is on a path to be virtually unrecognizable from what it has been for the past several decades. Dr. Zayna Khayat, a healthcare futurist will discuss how developments in digital technologies and AI are catalyzing the future of mental healthcare in Canada and globally - where the landscape is at now, where it is going (and how fast), what opportunities and risks it presents, and common myths vs. Realities that proliferate in the public discourse. Using in-the-field examples from leading organizations and health systems around the world, Dr. Khayat will draw insights into what citizens, clinicians, healthcare organizations and policy-makers must do today to enable or even catalyze positive changes in the coming years.

Learning Objectives

1. Understand the current state and landscape of technology-based drivers, forces and shifts underway that are significantly changing how mental health is promoted and protected, and how mental health care is organized, delivered and funded;
2. Through real world case studies, understand the landscape of digital health and/or AI-enabled care models that are actively in the field today, and implications for your research, practice, policy, patient/family outcomes and experience; and
3. Explore where digital health and AI are going in the next 1 to 5 years, and implications on policy, practice, strategy and investment decisions you may need to be considering today.

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