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Volume 2
Journal of Psychiatry and Mental Health Research
Psychiatry Nursing & Psychiatry 2019
June 17-18, 2019
Psychiatry & Mental health Nursing
Psychiatry and Mental Health
June 17-18, 2019 | Rome, Italy
4
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World Congress on
2
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Global Experts Meeting on
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Telepsychiatry: Moving beyond rural care to enhancing the patient experience
Allison Sikorsky
At Your Service Psychiatry, USA
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elepsychiatry has been around since the 1960s. It developed out of a lack of providers in rural settings.
Since then, it has expanded into other areas of need, including the Veterans Affairs, prison or jail systems,
and inpatient psychiatric hospital coverage. Telepsychiatry has the potential to expand beyond need and
into convenience and enhanced patient and clinician experience. Telepsychiatry may be one small piece of
a large puzzle of lowering physician suicide. As we all know, there are many reasons why physicians and
other healthcare professionals do not get psychiatric care. Physicians have the same rate of bipolar, alcohol
use disorder, depression, and anxiety as the general population, but the highest suicide rate of all professions
in the United States. The physician suicide rate is multifaceted. It includes the moral fatigue caused by
working in American hospital systems, administrative burden, education debt, and time spent with electronic
medical records over patient care. However, another consideration is their barriers to care: including stigma,
lack of private provider, no nearby areas, and hours outside of regular business operation hours. Private
telepsychiatry offers physicians, healthcare workers, people of media attention, and anyone else with higher
privacy concerns the option to get care. Private telepsychiatry, with personal electronic medical records,
allows clinicians to get care without the fear of having their charts accessed. Telepsychiatry gives them access
to providers outside of their colleague circle. This talk will be about building a professional-courtesy service-
oriented private telepsychiatry practice to reach those healthcare professionals who would not otherwise
obtain psychiatric or substance abuse care. America has many telemedicine restrictions with ever-changing
rules and today's psychiatrists and psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners have many roadblocks to
building a successful telepsychiatry practice.
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