Telepsychiatry

Telepsychiatry is the application of Telemedicine to the field of Psychiatry.

It has been the most successful of all the telemedicine applications so far, because of its need for only a good videoconferencing facility between the patient and the psychiatrist, especially for follow-up. There are sub-specialties like "forensic telepsychiatry" [http://www.telepsychiatry.slam.nhs.uk/Home/ForensicTP/tabid/332/Default.aspx] , in which the patient is typically an inmate accessing the psychiatrist who is from a supporting institution, and "home-based telepsychiatry" [http://www.telepsychiatry.com] , whereby the patient is in his own home or office, accessing the physician via webcam and high-speed internet.

External links

* [http://www.cpa-apc.org/publications/archives/Bulletin/2003/october/hilty.asp A review on the effectiveness]
* [http://telemed.org/europe/links/telepsych.asp Some related links]
* [http://www.telepsychiatry.slam.nhs.uk/Portals/9/douments/final.version.feasibility.08.03.doc A feasibility study]
* [http://www.liebertonline.com/doi/abs/10.1089/tmj.2004.10.455 A relevant article]
* [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14763673&dopt=Abstract Another relevant article]
* [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15689650&dopt=Abstract Another relevant article]
* [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=14645799&query_hl=3&itool=pubmed_docsum Another relevant free article]