Open AccessAdvances in IT and social psychiatry
Author(s) -
Varghese P Punnoose,
Siddharth Sarkar
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
indian journal of social psychiatry (online)/indian journal of social psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2454-8316
pISSN - 0971-9962
DOI - 10.4103/0971-9962.193192
Subject(s) - scope (computer science) , ehealth , realm , power (physics) , mhealth , population , psychology , health care , psychiatry , public relations , engineering ethics , political science , medicine , computer science , engineering , environmental health , physics , quantum mechanics , psychological intervention , law , programming language
IT has revolutionized the way individuals carry on with their lives and has been harnessed for varied applications like business management, classroom teaching, online sales and ticketing, and so forth.[1],[2] IT itself has seen development over the course of the last few decades and has seen greater access to the population, increase in computing power and speed, and enrichment in terms of content. The scope of IT has been appropriately recognized for health-care delivery and has led to the emergence of offshoot disciplines of eHealth and mHealth. Consequently, social psychiatry has also been favorably impacted, either directly or indirectly, by the ever expanding horizons of IT. This editorial discusses the application of IT in the realm of social psychiatr