Mentavi Health CEO Keith Brophy was recently featured in Authority Magazine, joining its Q&A series on what it will take to fix mental healthcare in America. According to him, the system doesn’t fall short because of the people working in it, but because of the structure around them.
Brophy describes a landscape most patients know too well: months-long wait times to see a specialist, many primary care providers with limited formal training in behavioral health, and geography and scheduling standing between people and the care they need. He lays out five changes he believes could genuinely move things forward: ending the stigma that still keeps people from seeking care, modernizing regulations for a digital world, getting payers to support progressive models of care faster, raising training standards for medication management, and building a system agile enough to safely absorb rapid innovation. Technology should do the quiet, heavy lifting in fostering these changes. Brophy describes its role as an “invisible infrastructure” for providers and patients, while making clear that it “should never be a replacement for human connection.”
One day, Brophy suggests, looking after your mental health should feel no different from looking after your heart—simply part of staying well. Managing your mental health “would look just like managing your cardiovascular health: proactive, dignified, digital-enabled, and completely normal.”
Read the full Q&A in *Authority Magazine*: Healing A Broken Mental Health System: Keith Brophy of Mentavi Health On 5 Things That Can Be Done To Fix Our Broken Mental Health System
