National Digital Mental Health Framework
Overview
Australia's National Digital Mental Health Framework (June 2021) establishes five action areas to create an integrated digital mental health ecosystem. It aims to strengthen connected care, build trust, enable equitable access, implement monitoring/evaluation, and enhance system integration through consumer-centered approaches and evidence-based digital services.
Key insights
Key Insights:
- Consumer-centered design: Places consumers at the center of digital service development
- Connected care focus: Right care, right time, right location approach
- Trust building priority: Evidence-based guidance to increase stakeholder confidence
- Equity emphasis: Ensure equitable access for all consumer cohorts
- Integration imperative: Seamless connection across broader health systems
- Evaluation requirement: Built-in monitoring to measure impact and improvement
- System enablers: Workforce capability, funding models, digital infrastructure needed
- Quality standards: Safety protections and interoperability across platforms
Did this resource draw on transformative evidence?
This document incorporates experiential expertise through extensive national consultations with the mental health sector and emphasises lived experience integration. It specifically calls for strengthening "Lived Experience, culturally appropriate and trauma-informed guidance" in co-creation and design of digital services, though it's primarily a policy framework rather than experientially-authored.
This document incorporates practice wisdom through national consultations with mental health practitioners and sector expertise. It addresses real-world barriers like warm referrals, workforce capability, and integration challenges. However, it's primarily a policy framework synthesising sector knowledge rather than being directly authored from frontline practice wisdom and clinical experience.
This document is strongly based on research and evaluation insights. It explicitly references "comprehensive research about Australia's digital mental health ecosystem," incorporates Productivity Commission inquiry recommendations, and dedicates an entire action area (Action Area 4) to building monitoring and evaluation into digital mental health services for evidence-based continuous improvement.
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