What is it about?
In a Canadian Journal of Psychiatry editorial, we consider telepsychiatry - and the future of this field. Dr. David Goldbloom and I look at the use (and under-use) of telepsychiatry in Ontario. This Editorial runs with the Serhal et al. paper on this topic.
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Why is it important?
Although the technology of televideo psychiatry has been around for more than half a century, its uptake and application has been both haphazard and insufficiently strategic. In a world where technology has the capacity to overcome geographic and other barriers to access to psychiatric care, there needs to be more broad application of televideo to mental health services in general - and better utilization by mental health professionals.
Perspectives
I have been involved in doing televideo psychiatry for twenty years - and historically was part of a fly-in service to remote communities. It is more efficient and more environmentally friendly to do this kind of work via televideo - and we have generated evidence that it is as palatable as an in-person encounter. In an era of FaceTime and Skype, this is even more the case.
David Goldbloom
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Read the Original
This page is a summary of: Telepsychiatry 2.0, The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, October 2017, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0706743717714469.
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