With the behavioral health workforce shortage, community mental health centers often experience the challenge of not having a large enough team to meet the high demand for psychological evaluation and treatment. If this sounds like your organization, you may be wondering how you can successfully set up a telepsychiatry program to meet the needs of …
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How do Patients Really Feel About Telepsychiatry? We are often asked, “how do patients feel about telepsychiatry” and “how does it compare to traditional in-person sessions?” The short answer to this is that we have found an overwhelming majority of patients have had a positive experience with telepsychiatry. However, there are a lot of factors …
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National Health Center Week: The Positive Impact innovaTel Partners Have on Their Communities August 11th-17th is National Health Center Week. The goal of National Health Center Week is to create greater awareness of Health Center programs, the work they do and how they do it. innovaTel partners with community health centers across the country to …
Increasing access to care is the driving force behind what we do at innovaTel. We believe that every patient deserves timely access to mental health care, and we partner with clinicians and mental health clinics in order to make that possible. How exactly is this done? Telepsychiatry increases access to care by optimizing time, removing …
One of the most common assumptions made about telepsychiatry is that it’s a temporary solution for meeting the increasing demand for mental healthcare. This assumption is based on the idea that telepsychiatry sessions are less effective than in-person sessions. However, after partnering with community mental health centers and building a network of clinicians from across …
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Dr. Ashby has been a telepsychiatrist with innovaTel for almost five years. In this interview, he sat down with Lauren Lashbrook, Director of Strategic Partnerships, to discuss his experience as a telepsychiatrist and what the transition looked like for him from running his own private practice to becoming a full-time telepsychiatrist. Just wait until you …
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From working as the CEO of a community mental health center, to launching a telepsychiatry company, Jon Evans the CEO of innovaTel has seen telepsychiatry evolve over the past 15 years. We asked Jon some questions about his career transition, what it’s like to lead a telepsychiatry organization, and his excitement for future innovation. How …
innovaTel had the opportunity to write this guest blog post for the Patrick J. Kennedy website for Mental Health Month. The post on Patrick J. Kennedy’s website can be found here. How Telepsychiatry Can Effectively Address Disparity in Care Amidst the Opioid Epidemic and Increasing Suicide Rate Guest blog post by Jonathan Evans, President and …
If your community mental health center has struggled with the increasing demand for care, chances are you have looked into bringing on a telepsychiatry partner to grow your team of clinicians. When searching for a telepsychiatry partner it is important that your organization takes a multifaceted approach when evaluating them in order to understand whether …
According to the Treatment Advocacy Center, In 44 states, a jail or prison holds more individuals with mental illnesses than the largest remaining state psychiatric hospital. Every inmate has the right to adequate medical and mental health care; however, due to overcrowding, lack of funding and outdated treatment laws, many inmates go without the basic …
Primary care settings have become the first place many individuals seek out or receive behavioral health care. To meet these needs, especially in under served communities, many primary care providers are integrating behavioral health services into their practice. The use of integrated care is a means of improving the overall quality of care while also …
How Our Clinicians Help Patients Heal Despite Modern Day Pressures National Eating Disorders Awareness Week is observed this week February 25th thru March 3rd. At innovaTel Telepsychiatry, our behavioral health clinicians specialize in a variety of subjects including eating disorders and understand just how difficult and nuanced the treatment can be. This month we reflected …
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As time goes on, the implications of the psychiatric shortage predict rising statistics in both substance abuse and suicide. The answer to addressing these alarming rates not only lies with policy and legislation but also with utilizing available technology to reach more people in need. Telepsychiatry has proven to be a viable way of bridging-the-gap …
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Despite legislative ups and downs in 2018, some notable progress was made in 2018 to push Mental Health Care Reform to the forefront, addressing the opioid crisis and efforts to grow the behavioral health workforce. However, starting in January of 2018, healthcare was a major topic for the legislative branch with the executive branch pushing …
With the behavioral health workforce shortage, facilities that provide mental health care services often experience the challenge of having a large enough team to meet the high demand for psychiatric evaluation and treatment. innovaTel was founded to close this gap in care by supplementing these facilities with the technology and clinicians to efficiently conduct telepsychiatry …
What do you like most about telepsychiatry? I chose telepsychiatry for personal and family reasons but as I do it more every day, I have realized there is no difference at all between telepsychiatry and in-person psychiatric care. I am as engaged, responsive, and efficient as in any other setting where we deliver psychiatric care. …
2018 has been a year of substantial forward movement in the field of behavioral health, in both policy and public dialogue. Although with this forward movement there still seems to be some confusion regarding newer methods of behavioral health care such as telepsychiatry. Skepticism ranges from its efficacy to its ease of implementation; however, we …
People ask me this all the time. “Is it like Skype?” Sort of, but in a secure, HIPAA-compliant kind of way. “Isn’t it weird for the patients?” Nope- at least not according to volumes of telepsychiatry research or our own survey data. And my personal favorite: “Do you wear pants?” Of course. Yoga pants. “What …
October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month and cybersecurity is a key to our business. Cybersecurity Awareness Month is a great time to share what we do as an telepsychiatry company to provide a secure connection as well as share some practical tips for cybersecurity that can be utilized to protect your patient privacy on a daily …
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Correctional psychiatry is a highly specialized area of medicine that is often misunderstood and almost always underserved. innovaTel recognizes the need for experienced correctional mental health care professionals who understand these complicated and challenging environments and prioritize high-quality care for incarcerated individuals and strong communication with correctional staff. This past spring, Dr. Keelin Garvey, a …
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