Flip the Clinic: A Digital Health Approach to Youth Mental Health Service Delivery During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond.

Davenport, TA; Cheng, VWS; Iorfino, F; Hamilton, B; Castaldi, E; Burton, A; Scott, EM; Hickie, IB

Flip the Clinic: A Digital Health Approach to Youth Mental Health Service Delivery During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond.

Davenport, TA Cheng, VWS Iorfino, F Hamilton, B Castaldi, E Burton, A

Scott, EM Hickie, IB

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Citation:: JMIR mental health, 2020, 7, (12)
Issue Date:: 2020-12-15

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dc.contributor.author	Davenport, TA
dc.contributor.author	Cheng, VWS
dc.contributor.author	Iorfino, F
dc.contributor.author	Hamilton, B
dc.contributor.author	Castaldi, E
dc.contributor.author	Burton, A https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6641-6442
dc.contributor.author	Scott, EM
dc.contributor.author	Hickie, IB
dc.date.accessioned	2021-01-07T01:02:13Z
dc.date.available	2020-11-14
dc.date.available	2021-01-07T01:02:13Z
dc.date.issued	2020-12-15
dc.identifier.citation	JMIR mental health, 2020, 7, (12)
dc.identifier.issn	2368-7959
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dc.description.abstract	The demand for mental health services is projected to rapidly increase as a direct and indirect result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Given that young people are disproportionately disadvantaged by mental illness and will face further challenges related to the COVID-19 pandemic, it is crucial to deliver appropriate mental health care to young people as early as possible. Integrating digital health solutions into mental health service delivery pathways has the potential to greatly increase efficiencies, enabling the provision of "right care, first time." We propose an innovative digital health solution for demand management intended for use by primary youth mental health services, comprised of (1) a youth mental health model of care (ie, the Brain and Mind Centre Youth Model) and (2) a health information technology specifically designed to deliver this model of care (eg, the InnoWell Platform). We also propose an operational protocol of how this solution could be applied to primary youth mental health service delivery processes. By "flipping" the conventional service delivery models of majority in-clinic and minority web-delivered care to a model where web-delivered care is the default, this digital health solution offers a scalable way of delivering quality youth mental health care both in response to public health crises (such as the COVID-19 pandemic) and on an ongoing basis in the future.
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dc.language	eng
dc.publisher	JMIR Publications Inc.
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dc.subject	1117 Public Health and Health Services
dc.title	Flip the Clinic: A Digital Health Approach to Youth Mental Health Service Delivery During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond.
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Abstract:

The demand for mental health services is projected to rapidly increase as a direct and indirect result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Given that young people are disproportionately disadvantaged by mental illness and will face further challenges related to the COVID-19 pandemic, it is crucial to deliver appropriate mental health care to young people as early as possible. Integrating digital health solutions into mental health service delivery pathways has the potential to greatly increase efficiencies, enabling the provision of "right care, first time." We propose an innovative digital health solution for demand management intended for use by primary youth mental health services, comprised of (1) a youth mental health model of care (ie, the Brain and Mind Centre Youth Model) and (2) a health information technology specifically designed to deliver this model of care (eg, the InnoWell Platform). We also propose an operational protocol of how this solution could be applied to primary youth mental health service delivery processes. By "flipping" the conventional service delivery models of majority in-clinic and minority web-delivered care to a model where web-delivered care is the default, this digital health solution offers a scalable way of delivering quality youth mental health care both in response to public health crises (such as the COVID-19 pandemic) and on an ongoing basis in the future.

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