Digital Mental Health Reduces Barriers and is ‘Not Going Anywhere’

Steven R Chan, MD, MBA, clinical assistant professor, Stanford University School of Medicine, California, and Gowri Aragam, MD, clinical instructor in psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, discuss the barriers and challenges when implementing digital mental health (DMH) into clinical practice and whether telepsychiatry and telehealth will continue to be widely used. Dr Chan and Dr Aragam sat down at the recent 2021 Psych Congress to discuss the current and future landscape of DMH.

In the previous part 1, Dr Chan and Dr Aragam define DMH and explore how telepsychiatry fits into DMH such as increasing access, altering the patient-clinician relationship, and giving way for patient self-care.