Refining smart healthcare care for mental health and substance use disorders: A patient-centred, evidence-based approach.

IF 3.9 4区医学 Q1 PSYCHIATRY

World Journal of Psychiatry Pub Date : 2025-06-19 DOI:10.5498/wjp.v15.i6.100438

Manmeet Kaur Brar, Siddharth Sarkar

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Abstract

In this article, we comment on the article by Zhang et al, which explores the familiarity, awareness, and usage of smart medical care and its correlation with mental health and personality traits. The use of intelligent healthcare technologies in treating mental disorders and substance use disorders shows significant promise, but involves certain challenges, such as limited access, low technological literacy, and privacy concerns. These barriers disproportionately affect deprived populations and individuals with severe mental health conditions. We highlight the positive impact of smart healthcare solutions, such as telemedicine and wearable technologies, on patient engagement, remote monitoring, and treatment adherence. To overcome these challenges, we propose strategies, such as improving user-friendliness, ensuring equitable access to digital interventions, enhancing cybersecurity, and integrating smart healthcare into clinical workflows. Training healthcare providers and developing policies to ensure the ethical use of patient data are essential. When implemented thoughtfully, smart healthcare technologies can revolutionize mental health and substance use disorder treatment, improve patient outcomes, and reduce healthcare inequities.

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完善精神健康和物质使用障碍的智能医疗保健：以患者为中心，以证据为基础的方法。

在这篇文章中，我们对Zhang等人的文章进行评论，该文章探讨了智能医疗的熟悉度、意识、使用及其与心理健康和人格特征的相关性。在治疗精神障碍和物质使用障碍方面使用智能医疗技术显示出巨大的前景，但涉及某些挑战，例如访问受限、技术素养低和隐私问题。这些障碍不成比例地影响到贫困人口和有严重精神健康问题的个人。我们强调智能医疗解决方案（如远程医疗和可穿戴技术）对患者参与、远程监控和治疗依从性的积极影响。为了克服这些挑战，我们提出了一些策略，如改善用户友好性、确保公平获取数字干预措施、加强网络安全以及将智能医疗整合到临床工作流程中。培训医疗保健提供者和制定政策以确保合乎道德地使用患者数据至关重要。如果实施得当，智能医疗技术可以彻底改变心理健康和药物使用障碍的治疗，改善患者的治疗效果，并减少医疗不公平。

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World Journal of Psychiatry PSYCHIATRY-

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6.50%

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110

期刊介绍： The World Journal of Psychiatry (WJP) is a high-quality, peer reviewed, open-access journal. The primary task of WJP is to rapidly publish high-quality original articles, reviews, editorials, and case reports in the field of psychiatry. In order to promote productive academic communication, the peer review process for the WJP is transparent; to this end, all published manuscripts are accompanied by the anonymized reviewers’ comments as well as the authors’ responses. The primary aims of the WJP are to improve diagnostic, therapeutic and preventive modalities and the skills of clinicians and to guide clinical practice in psychiatry.