Telemedicine and Telecare Links

Telepsychiatry

• APA Committee on Telemedical Services
  Resources from the American Psychiatric Association, including the Resource Paper on Telepsychiatry Via Videoconferencing.
• APA Statement on Services by Telephone, Teleconferencing, and Internet
  Author/editor:  American Psychological Association
  Date: November 5, 1997
  A statement by the Ethics Committee of the American Psychological Association.
• Behavioural Telehealth: Research and Development at the University of British Columbia
  Specific objectives of this project are to create an education-focused network of telehealth researchers at UBC and elsewhere, to develop a directory of telehealth resources relevant to health education in B.C. for use by UBC faculty, students, and the community at large, and to determine the viability of specific forms of telehealth through the assessment of two pilot projects.
• Burden and Hope: The Value of Statistics and Informatics in Mental Health
  Author/editor: By Tom Trabin, Ph.D., M.S.M.
  Date: not listed
  From Mental Health Statistics Improvement Program online.
• Delivering Behavioral Telehealth Via the Internet: e-Health
  Author/editor:  Marlene Maheu, Ph. D.
  Date: February 1, 2000
  An overview of the many ways to assist the development of behavioral telehealth and Ehealth.
• Evaluation of the Victorian Telepsychiatry Program - Executive Summary
  Author/editor: Anne Buist, Arlene Silvas
  Date: October 19, 1999
  The evaluation was performed over an 8 week period in early 1998 by the Mental Health Foundation of Australia, in collaboration with Simsion, Bolwes, and Associates.
• Forensic Psychiatry and Medicine: Telemedicine
  A collection of resources from Dr. Harold J. Bursztajn's web site.
• International Society for Mental Health Online (ISMHO)
  Formed in 1997 to promote the understanding, use, and development of online communication, with information and technology for the international mental health community. ISMHO is a nonprofit corporation.
• Monitoring Mental Health With Help From The Computer
  Author/editor: Mark Moran
  Date: February 7, 2000
  From American Medical News. In the practice of psychiatry, some clinicians say that computer technology can be used to track patients and hasten standardization of evaluation and diagnosis.
• NetPsychology
  NetPsychology explores the uses of the Internet to deliver mental health services.
• Psychological Applications on the Internet
  Author/editor: Azy Barak, PhD
  Date: October, 1999
  From Applied and Preventive Psychology, 8, 231-246. The article critically reviews various psychological applications in use on the Internet, with special emphasis given to their promises and advantages as well as to their shortcomings and problems.
• SCDMH Receives National Award
  Author/editor: not listed
  Date: April 19, 1999
  Press release about the telepsychiatry program at the South Carolina Department of Mental Health.
• SLaM Telepsychiatry Program
  Author/editor: n/a
  Date: August 2003
  A telepsychiatry programme in South London and Maudsley (SLAM). NHS Trust has developed a number of projects within SLAM and externally with local primary care providers over the past few years.
• States Require Reimbursement for Telemedicine
  Author/editor: n/a
  Date: March 19, 2004
  Five states, California, Louisiana,Texas, Oklahoma, and Kentucky, have passed legislation mandating private insurance coverage of medical services provided by telemedicine, according to the American Telemedicine Association. An article from Psychiatric News.
• Taking telehealth to the next step
  Author/editor: Lisa Rabasca
  Date: April, 2000
  From the APA's Monitor on Psychology, vol 31 no 4, providing psychotherapy from a distance is still in its infancy, but it may not be long until it's mainstream, experts predict.
• Taking time and space out of service delivery
  Author/editor: Lisa Rabasca
  Date: not listed
  Stephen Sulzbacher’s telehealth practice provides behavioral treatments to children in rural communities.
• Telehealth Bibliography
  From Telehealth net - a short bibliography with emphasis on mental health.
• Telepsychiatry and e-Mental Health
  Released in January 2003, edited by Richard Wootton and Peter Yellowlees, and published by the Royal Society of Medicine Press.
• Telepsychiatry as a Case Study of Presence: Do You Know What You Are Missing?
  Author/editor: Jeanine Warisse Turner
  Date: July, 2001
  From the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, vol 6 no 4, this study explores the use of videoconferencing technology as a means of providing mental health consultations across distances.
• The Challenge to Embed Telepsychiatry
  Author/editor: John Mitchell and Benjamin Mitchell
  Date: December, 1994
  An evaluation of the non-clinical aspects of the South Australian Mental Health Service Telemedicine Pilot Project.
• The Effectiveness of Telepsychiatry: A Review
  Author/editor: Hilty, D.M., Liu, W., Marks, S., Callahan, E.J.
  Date: October 2003
  Telepsychiatry appears effective, and recommendations are offered for further evaluation of its effectiveness. Adobe PDF
• The Effectiveness of Telepsychiatry: A Review
  Author/editor: Hilty, D.M., Liu, W., Marks, S., Callahan, E.J.
  Date: October 2003
  Telepsychiatry appears effective, and recommendations are offered for further evaluation of its effectiveness. Adobe PDF
• Towards Telepsychiatry As A Value-added Business
  Author/editor: John Bennett
  Date: December 29, 1997
  Viewpoints on what role technology can play with relationship to telepsychiatry, to reduce costs in patient treatment while at the same time adding value to psychiatric health care.
• U.S. Mental Health Telemedicine: Survey-Based Overview of Usage and Successful Systems
  A 1997 report from Feedback Research Services. The telepsychiatry networks profiled in the U.S. Mental Health Telemedicine report have demonstrated how to overcome administrative, operational, and technical barriers to more equitably provide mental health assistance to patients who may otherwise remain unserved.

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