[Mental illnesses: the playground for new technologies].

Coucke, P A

The current health care crisis, induced by the coronavirus pandemic, is at the origin of significant global changes within our societies and profoundly modifies the health care sector as well, especially in the field of mental health. Nowadays, this latter is particularly poorly equipped in financial and human resources. Without major and immediate changes, the mental health sector will not be able to cope with the expected exponential rise of care needs, exacerbated by the rapid deterioration of mental health in the general population and among health care providers. We intend to illustrate the potential role and benefit of new technologies, able to solve the imbalance. Without any possible doubt, the health care crisis has provided a formidable momentum for their arousal, but we still have to determine their accessibility, feasibility, efficacy and efficiency by running controlled clinical trials.