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Using e-Mental Health Services for the Benefit of Consumers in Saudi Arabia

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In the past decade, the popularity of adapting advances in Information Systems and Information Technology (IS/IT) has been steadily growing to improve and complement the traditional mental health services. IS/IT can assist mental health providers and governments facilitate their mental health services delivery as well as improve the mental health literacy to better early intervention and treatment. Saudi Arabia is investing heavily in e-health and aiming to build a complete one patient electronic record by 2020. IS/IT can also increase accessibility and availability of mental health services for consumers and reduce the stigma associated with psychology clinics. In the past decade, Australia has become one of the leading countries in providing e-mental health services and so this research in progress outlined in this chapter proffers the possibilities to transform e-mental health services of Australia to Saudi Arabia context.

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  1. Ministry of Education, Saudi Arabia & School of Business IT and Logistics, RMIT University, GPO Box 2476V, 3001, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Bader Binhadyan

  2. School of Business IT and Logistics, RMIT University, GPO Box 2476V, 3001, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Dr. Konrad Peszynski

  3. Deakin University and Epworth HealthCare, 60 Baker Ave, 3102, Kew East, Australia

    Prof. Nilmini Wickramasinghe

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  2. The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

    Indrit Troshani

  3. McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

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Binhadyan, B., Peszynski, K., Wickramasinghe, N. (2016). Using e-Mental Health Services for the Benefit of Consumers in Saudi Arabia. In: Wickramasinghe, N., Troshani, I., Tan, J. (eds) Contemporary Consumer Health Informatics. Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25973-4_20

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