Mental Health & Information Technology
Mental Health is being discussed more and more today. People are no longer afraid to share that they experience various aspects of mental health. Anxiety has been a problem that many of us are dealing with in today’s society. It’s important that we in the Information Technology (IT) field identify ways to support the greater society by providing tools that can help assist and improve the day to day functions of life. Information Technology can assist in many ways but I am gonna focus on Mental Health IT.
Information Technology has made great strides in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, Computer Vision, deep learning Neural Networks and let us not leave out the advancements in cognitive processing. Information Technology has truly tapped artificially into the brain functions. Why not create an additional synapse to support anxiety. Think about it. I know we are!!!