Brar MK, Sarkar S. Refining smart healthcare care for mental health and substance use disorders: A patient-centred, evidence-based approach. World J Psychiatry 2025; 15(6): 100438 [DOI: 10.5498/wjp.v15.i6.100438]
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Siddharth Sarkar, MD, Additional Professor, National Drug Dependence Treatment Centre (NDDTC) and Department of Psychiatry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Sri Aurobindo Marg, New Delhi 110029, India. sidsarkar22@gmail.com
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Psychiatry
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World J Psychiatry. Jun 19, 2025; 15(6): 100438 Published online Jun 19, 2025. doi: 10.5498/wjp.v15.i6.100438
Refining smart healthcare care for mental health and substance use disorders: A patient-centred, evidence-based approach
Manmeet Kaur Brar, Siddharth Sarkar
Manmeet Kaur Brar, Siddharth Sarkar, National Drug Dependence Treatment Centre (NDDTC) and Department of Psychiatry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi 110029, India
Manmeet Kaur Brar, Department of Psychiatry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Jammu 184120, India
Author contributions: Brar MK wrote the initial manuscript; Brar MK and Sarkar S conceptualized, revised the manuscript, and have read and approved the final manuscript.
Conflict-of-interest statement: All the authors report no relevant conflicts of interest for this article.
Open Access: This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: https://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Corresponding author: Siddharth Sarkar, MD, Additional Professor, National Drug Dependence Treatment Centre (NDDTC) and Department of Psychiatry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Sri Aurobindo Marg, New Delhi 110029, India. sidsarkar22@gmail.com
Received: August 16, 2024 Revised: January 1, 2025 Accepted: March 11, 2025 Published online: June 19, 2025 Processing time: 285 Days and 23.9 Hours
Core Tip
Core Tip: This article explores the integration of smart healthcare technologies, such as wearable devices, telemedicine, and electronic health records, into psychiatric and substance use disorders. It highlights innovative approaches, such as ecological momentary assessments and smartphone-based monitoring that enable personalized and proactive care. We discuss challenges, including data complexity, usability, and ethical concerns, and provide recommendations - such as user-friendly designs with gamification, privacy safeguards, adaptive interfaces for mobility issues, and scalable stepped-care models - to enhance engagement. The need for certification, clinician support tools, and two-way patient communication is also addressed, optimizing smart healthcare for better outcomes in mental health and substance use disorder treatment.
