Technology can transform patients.
Innovative product creations
Central to the health humanities discipline is the notion of mutual recovery – the idea that the sharing of creative practice and resources can promote resilience in mental health and well-being among professionals, informal carers and service users. This concept is emerging at a time when the burden of mental health remains considerable especially after earthquake 2015 and Covid 19 outbreak in Nepal over burdening rehabilitation centers.
In B S 1997 Kedar Man Bethit, Siddhi Charan Shrestha and Dharma Ratna Yami immersed themselves as top writers and poets while serving sentences for trying to overthrow the ruling regime. They were diverting the mind while copying the inhuman conditions of the prison. Mental health problems affected large numbers of prisoners then however such products impacted the mental health of those in the prison. Those products were helping healing and encouraging for other sufferers of the inmates too. There are many such similar cases all over the world in the area of creative arts and product innovations. Rehab centers have to be equipped with physical infrastructures for organizing regular events to the outside world too so that mental patients ger revenue from such creations for self-supporting, reducing the financial and stresses of the family members. Inmates of Asha Deep should be encouraged to create innovative products supported by digital tools.
Current community care approaches continue to deliver mixed results, with social isolation and exclusion still growing. There are mounting fears service users' trust is being undermined and that the effectiveness of mental health services need to be integrated with the services of NGOs, INGOs and government agencies working in such areas. They provide fertile ground for innovation, involvement and impact for mutual recovery. Among the local NGOs Asha Deep should collaborate with Dharma Heera Academy, Foundation under Siddhi Charan Shrestha, Chitta dhar hridaya, Kedar Man Byathit and foundations run under the names of those prison inmates during B. S 1997.
Digital Technologies for Innovative Mental Health Rehabilitation
Digital therapeutics in mental health will help improve existing care pathways and help payers, employers, and national providers cover neurological diseases. It will help integrate value-added therapies into official clinical guidelines and existing care management pathways. A patient or caregiver with any type of mental illness should expect digital therapy to offer innovative treatment options for a wide variety of neurological conditions and to provide highly engaging and immersive therapeutic approaches while at the same time offering actionable feedback.
Technology emerges as one of the possible solutions to assist in the rehabilitation of patients. As a complement, it can promote solutions that improve accessibility to health care. Moreover, it allows crossing geographical barriers, schedule and time inconvenience, or lack of human resources. Potentially, they also provide economically viable solutions, which allow for measurability (data collection and cross-referencing) and scalability (through easier perception of ideas that work, allowing for their replication).
Digital therapeutics in mental health will help improve existing care pathways and help concerned stakeholders and national providers cover neurological diseases. It will help integrate value-added therapies into official clinical guidelines and existing care management pathways. It will also help improve patient safety and improve practice efficiency. It will help demonstrate safety, efficacy, and cost effectiveness based on the principles and practices of evidence-based medicine. Digital therapeutics in mental health disorders will also help deliver clinical, service efficiency, and health economic benefits. It will also help demonstrate improved clinical and health economic outcomes at patient and population levels. This technology allows for multiple possible therapeutic solutions, such as: reproduction of daily life, adaptation techniques for adjustment in daily routines, training regimens to improvement of cognitive and social skills, reproduction of classical cognitive-behavioral therapy techniques, and exposure-based therapy, among others.
As the capabilities and reach of technology have expanded, there is an accompanying proliferation of digital technologies developed for use in the care of patients with mental illness. Real-world, naturalistic studies using larger samples will further facilitate the integration of digital technology into everyday mental health care.