Staffing shortages and provider burnout continue as significant challenges across healthcare, but it can be especially difficult in behavioral health. TelePsychiatry offers a powerful solution by acting as a workforce multiplier, enabling providers to deliver care efficiently across multiple locations while supporting on-site teams. At Access TeleCare, we’re leveraging telePsychiatry to expand access, improve efficiency, and reduce burnout for healthcare providers.
TelePsychiatry is revolutionizing behavioral health care as a workforce multiplier, delivering providers in a model similar to how hospitals and health systems contract with a medical specialty group through unique practices and technology that fuse each organization’s goals and mission in partnership.
Expanding Provider Reach
TelePsychiatry allows providers to extend their reach far beyond the walls of a single hospital. Michael Genovese, M.D., J.D., chief medical officer, Behavioral Health at Access TeleCare, explains how telePsychiatry augments and enhances operations to achieve the mission for many organizations.
“TelePsychiatry is a workforce multiplier. You just get to your screen and are able to visit one hospital and then with the click of a button, visit another hospital and with another click visit another hospital,” said Genovese. “This ability to seamlessly connect with multiple facilities ensures that more patients receive the care they need, without overburdening providers.”
Telemedicine Improves Efficiency and Outcomes
By streamlining workflows, Access TeleCare’s programs empower providers, allowing them to focus on delivering high-quality care.
“Telemedicine is a way to bring your workday to be more efficient, to be able to spend the right kind of time with patients, to have the right kind of outcomes from that,” Genovese added.
This efficiency not only improves patient outcomes but also enhances provider satisfaction, creating a win-win for everyone involved.
TelePsychiatry Supports On-Site Teams
TelePsychiatry doesn’t replace on-site teams. It supports them. Sandeep Bidari, president, Behavioral Health Business Unit, Access TeleCare, said telemedicine has the ability to provide support at all levels with an added benefit inherent to well-run systems
“Even if we’re not the full clinical solution, we can be part of the solution… hospitals and health systems use us to help supplement their existing on-the-ground team as well to help minimize the burnout on their on-the-ground staff and be able to retain them while using us for supplemental coverage,” Bidari said.
This collaborative approach ensures that both patients and providers benefit from the integration of telePsychiatry.
In addition, Access TeleCare’s telemedicine platform also brings specialized expertise to hospitals that may struggle to recruit behavioral health providers.
“We can bring a panel of providers that would be hard for any local hospital to recruit themselves and provide 24/7 coverage with response times of two hours or less,” Bidari explained.
This level of access and responsiveness is critical for addressing the growing demand for behavioral health services.
Fostering Intellectual Curiosity – Operating at the Top of the License
TelePsychiatry also offers providers the opportunity to engage with a wide variety of clinical cases, keeping their work interesting and fulfilling while also empowering nurses and others to work at the top of their license.
“You’re able to see a greater variety of patient type pathology,” Genovese said. “It provides people with the opportunity to see different types of clinical situations, which hopefully maintains their interest and satisfies their intellectual curiosity.”
This diversity of experience helps providers stay engaged and motivated in their work.
TelePsychiatry is not merely a tool. It’s a workforce multiplier that’s transforming behavioral health care. By expanding provider reach, improving efficiency, supporting on-site teams, and fostering knowledge growth, telePsychiatry is addressing some of the biggest challenges in healthcare today.
Want to learn more about how telePsychiatry can act as a workforce multiplier for your organization? Contact us today to see how Access TeleCare can help.
