Behavioral Health

With an Access TeleCare telePsychiatry program, hospitals have the ability to more quickly move patients through their emergency departments to the advantage of patients and emergency department care teams. Watch Dr. John Kenny, chief of psychiatry, discuss the value of having a […]

We hear many stories about healthcare professionals and patients overcoming telePsychiatry skepticism, but none more gratifying than SOC’s new Director of Behavioral Health. Char Biamonte, Ph.D., MA, BS, BC-NE, BC-RN, FACHE, has more than 30 years of healthcare experience, primarily in a […]

In 2016, two researchers embarked on a systematic—one might say, extremely comprehensive—review of terminology to describe telemedicine for mental health in the U.S. They searched mental health licensure websites in all 50 states, reviewed related laws, statutes, rules, policies, and newsletters, and […]

Every time police officers are called on to respond to a mental health emergency, there is a good chance they will have to deal with the consequences of a long series of previous failures: societal failures, regulatory failures, and failures of our […]

Most of us have seen graphs showing the dramatic telehealth growth as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic: a massive surge in March and April of 2020, followed by a moderate plunge, and finally a tapering off. Here’s what it looks like: […]

By Traci Richards, Ph. D., Manager of Behavioral Health Services, Chesapeake Regional Healthcare Chesapeake Regional Medical Center scales up telePsychiatry during the pandemic and finds some care delivery best practices along the way Chesapeake Regional Medical Center has collaborated with Access TeleCare for on-demand access to board-certified psychiatrists since 2014. […]

By Dr. John Kenny I first started noticing it in February. We got more calls, more cases while on shift, and more text messages asking us to take cases while off shift. After all, that’s what telePsychiatry does: it adjusts to meet […]