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Sunday, September 5, 2010
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Last updated: 08/21/2009
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| Mental Health Informatics |
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| Founded: 2000 |
| Membership: 45 |
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| Chair |
Term of Office: 2006 - 2009 |
| Dewan, Mr. Naakesh A., MD |
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| President |
| American Association for Technology in Psychiatry |
| Clearwater FL U.S.A. 33761 |
| +1 727 723 0779 |
| +1 727 723 0770 |
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| Vice-Chair |
Term of Office: 2007-2010 |
| Subramaniam, Dr. Kannan |
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| Managing Director |
| Kangela Limited |
| Auckland New Zealand 1142 |
| +64 21 80 44 14 |
| +61 2 80 80 81 81 |
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Goals & Objectives
New Workplan
Background: The MHWG of IMIA has been in existence since 2000. For a variety of reasons, the Work Group has not been able to garner the resources to achieve its mission.
During this time, the world of informatics in mental health has exponentially changed. Now consumers can use the web for actual therapy. Clinicians can peek into functioning of the brain during cognitive tasks. They search for evidence-based information while taking care of patients. Patients can be seen by there clinicians via tele-psychiatry. Yet, we have not developed ways that informatics can reduce the disease burden of psychiatric disorders, increase collaboration between medical and mental health clinicians, or shared best practices in research, practice, or policy. If an international body can make a difference, it should be in transforming the burden of mental health disorders worldwide and being an international best practices exchange group.
There exist today unlike three years ago, a critical mass of informatics innovators who function as researchers, developers, and policy leaders who have no forum to share perspectives and shape the future of mental health informatics.
IMIA has already multiple corporate, academic, and governmental partners. The Mental Health Workgroup membership should be recruit members from existing partners. As a potential Mental Health Workgroup Chair I propose four goals to be achieved by 2009:
- Formal collaboration with the WHO mental health initiative
- An Annual Publication of International Best Practices in research, policy and practice in collaboration with Elsevier
- An Informatics Policy Framework that would allow medical and mental health clinicians to share information to the betterment of patients and society while protecting confidentiality and privacy.
- Corporate, Foundation, and Governmental Support to fund the functions of the IMIA Workgroup
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