FWBHW 2020 : PervasiveHealth 2020 Workshop on The Future of Work in Behavioral Healthcare Workshop

Background and Motivation:

• Like all industries, behavioral healthcare is on the cusp of transformation marked by workers forming symbiotic relationships with emerging technologies. The transformation will be motivated by the need for healthcare to be more effective and efficient. Costs in behavioral healthcare are tremendous and access to evidence-based treatment is highly restrictive. Government agencies and local communities are interested in ensuring that all people benefit from advances in behavioral healthcare. Technological innovations can address these needs while simultaneously ensuring the future of work in behavioral health becomes more rewarding; that is, to enhance the working experience rather than diminish it.
• Despite anticipated benefits of new technologies, neither clinicians nor their institutions are prepared for the transformation. The time is now to build communities interested in the future of work in behavioral healthcare. These communities should involve contributions and feedback from all stakeholders, as each perspective is needed to see and fully appreciate the horizon of future work.
• This workshop aims to build a community by casting a wide net of subject matter, which may help identify universal ideas and concerns regarding the future of work in behavioral healthcare. Anticipated questions include:
  • What kind of training is required by clinicians to adopt innovations? And who will provide this training?
  • What kind of mindset shift does there need to be from a provider perspective? And how will issues of compliance be addressed?
  • What do technologists need to learn to make innovations acceptable to clinicians?
  • How can technologists communicate with those in most need of advances to the workplace such as those with few resources yet great capacity demands?
  • What skills to clinicians possess that can facilitate the work of technologists?

Objectives:

1. Sharing current innovative ideas and projects that are intended to improve aspects of work in behavioral healthcare.
2. Understanding how clinicians and technologists can collaborate and share complementary skills and perspectives to improve work in behavioral healthcare.
3. Predicting the benefits and risks of emerging innovations for work in behavioral healthcare.
4. Identifying priorities for new research directions for the future of work in behavioral healthcare.
5. Building a community around the future of work in behavioral healthcare.
6. Disseminating workshop contributions in a special section of an EAI-affiliated journal (details to be determined during workshop).

Format:

• Description:
  • Combination of brief and in-depth presentations, demonstrations, discussion with non-technical stakeholders, and generation of prioritizes and risks.
• Target number of participants:
  • 6
• Schedules
  • 90 minutes:        Five panelists will present brief presentations on their experience and expertise
  • 15 minutes:        Coffee break
  • 120 minutes:     Participants will present 20-minute presentations of their ongoing projects (demonstrations of technology encouraged) to the five panelists and other workshop participants
  • 60 minutes:        Lunch
  • 120 minutes:     Each panelist will provide individual feedback to the participant based on their experience and expertise in a  “round robin sequence”
  • 15 minutes:        Coffee Break
  • 90 minutes:        All participants and panelists will reconvene to discuss commonalities and differences in participants’ projects and then generalize the discussion to the larger domain of “the future of work in behavioral healthcare,” noting priorities for research and potential risks.

Soliciting Submissions:

• Organizers will circulate a call to relevant mailing lists (e.g., HCI organizations, the Georgia Clinical and Translational Science Group, and behavioral healthcare organizations such as ABCT, ADAA, APA, IOCDF, and ISTSS).
• Organizers will publicize workshop at NSF’s Smart and Connected Health meet-up in January in Washington, DC.
• The materials presented in the position papers should not be published or under submission elsewhere. All submissions will be reviewed by the Program Committee and external experts to reach a decision on acceptance. Submissions must adhere to the double-column ACM format using SIGCHI template. Proceeding templates must be used for preparing the submissions (Word and LaTeX templates are available at (https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template). Please follow the instructions available at http://pervasivehealth.org/authors-kit/.

Deadlines:

Submission deadline: 20th March 2020

Notification deadline: 27th March 2020

Camera-Ready deadline: 10th April 2020