Telepsychiatry

Randall Hagar, director of government affairs with the California Psychiatric Association, says that telepsychiatry can have benefits, but also limitations. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The Army has begun offering telepsychiatry , which offers soldiers therapy over a private web videoconference. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Back then, she and her mother had never heard of telepsychiatry. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The rise in telepsychiatry has come largely out of need. ❋ Unknown (2011)

In South Carolina, a statewide telepsychiatry program established last summer has cut the average waiting period for a child to get a psychiatric consultation from several days in part because many families in rural areas lack transportation to get to an urban hospital to a few hours. ❋ Unknown (2011)

"There is a flat-screen TV, and that's where they can see the clinician and talk in real time," says Dr. Fred Thomas, a psychiatric epidemiologist who heads community-based mental-health services and policy for the University of Texas Medical Branch, which now includes five telepsychiatry locations in Galveston. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Since telepsychiatry was introduced decades ago, video conferencing has been an increasingly accepted way to reach patients in hospitals, prisons, veterans' health care facilities and rural clinics - all supervised sites. ❋ By JAN HOFFMAN (2011)

"Our newest program is telepsychiatry, where a person can come in with a mental health issue and be seen, via video, by a UTMB psychiatrist right away." ❋ Unknown (2010)