In medically complex situations, providing comprehensive and integrated psychiatric care to patients is paramount. This includes addressing both physical health as well as the complex interplay between mental and physical well-being. Within hospital settings, medical surgical units and intensive care units [...]
Access TeleCare bridges the gap in access to psychiatric services for patients. Watch Dr. John Kenny, Access TeleCare's chief of psychiatry, discuss how our telePsychiatry team helped identify and stabilize an underlying infection for one patient suffering from dementia who otherwise [...]
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, another crisis has emerged. Increasing need for psychiatric treatment for children and adolescents. The American Academy of Pediatrics, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and Children’s Hospital Association declared a national emergency in children's mental health [...]
With an Access TeleCare telePsychiatry position, psychiatrists have the ability to have a rewarding career that removes the level of intensity that can accompany in-person work in a hospital emergency department or inpatient setting. Listen to Dr. John Kenny, Access TeleCare's [...]
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 [...]
Dr. John Kenny, Access TeleCare's chief of psychiatry, discusses the quality of life aspects of a telePsychiatry career. These include schedule flexibility and having the ability to structure a psychiatry career however best suits an individual physician's personal and professional needs and [...]
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: [...]
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