Building partnerships: a pilot study of stakeholders ’ attitudes on technology disruption in behavioral health delivery and research

AbstractCollaborations between scientists, care providers, and technology industry professionals are becoming more relevant for developing, testing, and implementing behavioral health technologies. As the need for such partnerships increases, it is important to understand stakeholders ’ attitudes about their role in partnering for developing such technologies and how much do they expect technology to impact behavioral research and care. The aim of this study was to investigate how much technology disruption do stakeholders expect in healthcare, as well as their perceived contri bution in partnering for developing behavioral health technologies. Stakeholders (N = 74) responded to an online convenience sampling survey. Over 89% of participants reported expecting that technology will bring at least a moderate amount of disruption in the current models of behavioral healthcare, with respondents with the most experience in digital health expecting the most disruption. As for their perception of each other’s role in partnering for developing behavioral health technologies, one group’s weakness was considered to be complemented by another group’s strength. Academics were perceived as having more theoretical and research expertise but being less te chnology-savvy, while industry professionals were considered to excel at technological and marketing activities. Providers were considered to have the most clinical and real-world healthcare industry expertise. Our results indica...
Source: Translational Behavioral Medicine - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research