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An Overview of Practicing High Quality Telepsychiatry

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Providing psychiatric services remotely via telepsychiatry can be an effective care delivery model. Given the increasing need for psychiatric services, utilization of telepsychiatry is expected to increase for both consultation and treatment purposes. There are currently regulatory constraints, such as licensure, in-person examination, and prescribing requirements that pose significant barriers to the widespread adoption of telepsychiatry. However, these regulatory barriers are being evaluated by the states and are slowly being resolved. The steps to practicing quality telepsychiatry are: determine exactly what type of telepsychiatry you want to practice; determine how you want to practice and what technology will be used; address licensure requirements in the patient’s state; address in-person examination and prescribing requirements in your state and the patient’s state; address other relevant legal issues such as fraud and abuse, credentialing, and reimbursement requirements; determine the standard of care and how to meet or exceed it when practicing telepsychiatry; and evaluate the quality and effectiveness of the services rendered via telepsychiatry.

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  1. Risk Management, Professional Risk Management Services, Inc., Arlington, VA, USA

    Donna Vanderpool M.B.A., J.D. (Vice President)

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  1. BayCare Medical Group, Behavioral Health, BayCare Health System, Clearwater, Florida, USA

    Naakesh A. Dewan

  2. Health Sciences, Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, USA

    John S. Luo

  3. Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

    Nancy M. Lorenzi

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Vanderpool, D. (2015). An Overview of Practicing High Quality Telepsychiatry. In: Dewan, N., Luo, J., Lorenzi, N. (eds) Mental Health Practice in a Digital World. Health Informatics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14109-1_8

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