Mental Health
Baker DC, Bufka LF. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 42(6)
As technology advances, psychologists increasingly have the opportunity to engage with patients or other users of psychological services via less traditional methods. However, little guidance exists to prepare psychologists to navigate the legal, regulatory, reimbursement, and ethical issues that can arise when providing psychological services via technology.
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23 December 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | Tag(s): Ethics, Legal, Mental Health, Privacy, Security, Telehealth, Telemedicine
Nicole Lewis, InformationWeek Healthcare
“The federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has awarded $25 million to help behavioral health organizations implement health IT to enable clinicians to access, manage, and monitor patient data.
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19 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Adoption, Behaviour, Mental Health, mHealth, Underserved
Foreman AC et al, Journal of Participatory Medicine, 3
Summary:
Mood 24/7 is an innovation in traditional mood charting using text messaging technology. Mood 24/7 allows the user to collect mood data in a standardized text message format, receives optional 160-character annotations from users in addition to their daily mood ratings, and securely stores user response data on a protected server.
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7 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | Tag(s): Depression, Engagement, Mental Health, Mood, SMS
Eryn Brown, Los Angeles Times
“There’s a lot you can read about on Twitter — including, it now appears, the patterns of human moods.
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30 September 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Behaviour, Mental Health, Research, Social Media, Twitter
Live interactive videoconferencing and other technologies offer innovative opportunities for effective delivery of specialized child and adolescent mental health services. In this article, an example of a comprehensive telepsychiatry program is presented to highlight a variety of capacity-building initiatives that are responsive to community needs and cultures; these initiatives are allowing children, youth and caregivers to access otherwise-distant specialist services within their home communities.
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13 September 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Tag(s): Children, Mental Health, Telemedicine, Telepsychiatry, Videoconferencing
Helen Phung, EHR Bloggers
“Mental and behavioral health advocates are pushing for meaningful use EMR incentives to be extended to organizations, facilities, clinics and medical groups that provide mental health services.
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17 August 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Mental Health
Jesús de la Gándara, El Mundo
“Antiguamente podíamos hacer esto ante un espejo. Y si era mágico, como los venecianos de Guido Forlani, podíamos usarlos para cambiar nuestra imagen o adivinar el futuro. Ahora ya tenemos esos espejos, son virtuales, cibernéticos, como nuestro ordenador, con el cual podemos interaccionar de múltiples formas. Veamos una de ellas:
Hágase a si mism@ una fotografía digital.
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10 August 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Tag(s): Mental Health, Virtual Reality
Furber GV et al, The Journal of Adolescent Health, 48(1)
BACKGROUND
Mobile phones play a central role in the lives of young people and are being increasingly recognized as valuable tools in health care. However, there is a paucity of studies exploring the use of mobile phones in youth outreach mental health services. Our outreach team’s experience is that enabling youth to access their therapist directly through mobile phone improves engagement and retention, and short message service (SMS) in particular, is a useful tool for coordinating appointments. The purpose of this study was to audit the content of SMS exchanges between therapists and clients and to investigate the extent of inappropriate SMS use.
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24 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: Australia | Tag(s): Adolescents, Cellphone, Mental Health, mHealth, Physician-Patient Relationship, SMS
John Grohol, PsychCentral
“Stop the presses! Randall Stross over at the Digital Domain at The New York Times has just discovered online therapy.
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15 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Mental Health, Telemedicine
PRWeb
“According to results of a pilot study presented at the Anxiety Disorders Association of America 31st Annual Conference, Prolonged exposure (PE) therapy for the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can be safely and effectively delivered to veterans living in rural areas via telehealth,.
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11 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Mental Health, Telemedicine
Randall Stross, The New York Times
“Today, even with the rise of the Internet, virtual therapy hasn’t been widely adopted. But several start-up companies are trying to make Dr. Dwyer’s decades-old vision a workaday reality.
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10 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Mental Health, Telemedicine, Telepsychiatry, Videoconferencing
Emily Singer, Technology Review
“Ginger.io, a startup spun out of the MIT Media Lab, aims to use data collected automatically from mobile phones to warn users and their physicians that they may be on the verge of a manic episode or a bout of debilitating illness.
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22 June 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Applications, Mental Health, mHealth
Thomas CR et al, Telemedicine and e-Health, 11(5)
Domestic violence is a significant public health problem and is correlated with serious mental and physical disorders. Victims’ fear and isolation seriously limit access to psychiatric evaluation and treatment. Telemedicine provides a means to overcome these obstacles. This article describes a telemedicine program that provides psychiatric screening, evaluation, treatment, and referral for ongoing care to clients of a rural women’s crisis center. Psychiatric evaluation and treatment were provided to a rural women’s shelter program using telepsychiatry. The shelter program had difficulty accessing traditional mental health service. All new clients entering the program were screened for mental health problems.
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8 June 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | Tag(s): Mental Health, Telemedicine, Telepsychiatry
Riva G et al, Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 18 - NextMed, 2011
Since the European funded project VREPAR–Virtual Reality in Neuro-Psycho-Physiology (1995)–different European research activities have been using virtual reality and advanced information and communication technologies to improve the quality of care in the treatment of many different mental health disorders including anxiety disorders, eating disorders and obesity. Now the European Commission funding is shifting from the traditional hospital-centred and reactive healthcare delivery model toward a person-centred and preventive one.
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22 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: Europe | Tag(s): Mental Health, Patient Centric, Personal Health Systems, Preventive Care, Virtual Reality
NECN
“A service called Telehealth is being used to help clients at Green Country Behavioral Services. CEO Joy Sloan said approximately 200 clients have joined the program since it was launched April 2.
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16 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Mental Health, Teleconsultation, Telehealth, Telemedicine, Telepsychiatry
Kerry Best, See Hello
“When they looked recently into their crystal balls, some Houston doctors saw a future of less face time with patients and more technology in the hospital or office. But the oracle didn’t show them the HD telepresence technology actually facilitating doctor-patient face time in a medical center in their very own city.
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10 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Mental Health, Telemedicine, Telepsychiatry
Mike Wiser, The Gazette
“Both the Iowa House and Senate moved legislation last week that has the state taking a greater role in taking care of the mentally ill.
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17 April 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Mental Health, Rural, Telemedicine, Telepsychiatry
Ben Anderson, Ewen Speed, CRESI
“This report is the second deliverable of the “Digital Inclusion and Social Knowledge Media for Health: Frameworks and Roadmaps” project. The first discussed the concept of social and digital exclusion whilst this report focuses on the emerging phenomenon of social media.
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9 April 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News, Report | Country: UK | Tag(s): Lifestyle, Mental Health, Primary Care, Social Media
Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“While having a fully integrated EHR is important to most healthcare organizations, there are some very tangible and distinct challenges faced by mental health organizations when implementing EHR technology.
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9 April 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Mental Health
Cedric Duval, Les Echos
“Après les jeux vidéo ou la formation, la réalité virtuelle est en train d’investir un autre domaine : la santé. Le nombre croissant de conférences médicales consacrées à cette technologie est un bon indicateur de cette tendance. La dernière en date s’est tenue hier dans le cadre du festival Laval Virtual, sous la direction d’Evelyne Klinger, responsable de l’entité Handicaps et innovations technologiques d’Arts et Métiers ParisTech.
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7 April 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: France | Tag(s): games, Mental Health, Virtual
