Information Technology Advancements and “Good Mental Health”

Over the past fifty years, medical expenditures have increased very rapidly, from 5 percent of GDP in 1960 to 16 percent today. It is widely believed that technological change is the main driver of these expenditure increases, bearing responsibility for at least half of the growth. Transforming institutional sectors is one of the most important advancement in mental health.

These types of technology-driven changes could benefit the entire national health care system, as well as other institutional sectors. In the recent Crossing the Quality Chasm studies, the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of ...