There was an interesting article in the New York Times this weekend regarding telemedicine titled “The doctor will see you now. Please log on.” According to the article, the telemedicine business has been growing by almost 10% annually, and is now a half-billion dollar industry. One of the issues brought up by the article is [...]
Tagged information lost, Texas Medical Board, video quality, webcamThere was a news article which came out over the weekend which described the results of a systematic review by members of the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal College of General Practitioners in the United Kingdom. I tried looking on both the RCP and the RCGP’s web sites, but couldn’t find a link [...]
Tagged physician's attitudes, RCGP, RCP, safetySo, in my post last week , I described why I don’t think that the protocol used by Skype (assuming that it is the one they claim to be using on their website) seems fairly secure to me–it’s the same protocol used by banks and is approved by the government for the transmission of top [...]
Tagged EHR, HIPAA, privacy, security, skypeI noticed an announcement last week saying that Skype was releasing a new beta version of its software for Windows which allows up to five people to participate in a video call simultaneously. Alas, it isn’t clear when they’ll have something for Linux and Mac users, but this will certainly be a feature that I’ll [...]
Tagged conference call, environment, skype, WindowsI got a couple of comments a month ago regarding Skype security and in response to my previous post “Is Skype HIPAA-compliant?“ Marlene Maheu at the TeleMental Health Institute’s Center for Online Counseling and Psychotherapy has a blog post on Telehealth.net in which she voices some concerns about Skype security and in which she references [...]
Tagged HIPAA, security, skypeIt’s a busy week for me, so I haven’t had much time to blog, but the second of two podcasts that I did with my friends at the Shrink Rap blog is now online. We talked about technology in psychiatry and how it’s changing things.
Tagged podcast, technologyThe term “boundary” is mental health jargon for the edge that separates professional from non-professional conduct in dealing with patients. A boundary is an imaginary line in the sand in the relationship between mental health professionals and their patients. “Boundary violations” typically occur when a mental health practitioner does something in the context of treatment [...]
Tagged boundaries, dress, shoji screenI’ve really liked the first two posts (in a planned series of six) on telepsychiatry at the Shrinkrapping blog . The first post talks about a new telepsychiatry project which started in 2007 in South Carolina . The program is already working in seventeen hospitals, with plans to expand to 45-60 hospitals by the time [...]
Tagged fax, high-definition, OCR, Polycom, South CarolinaI read an interesting blog post in which the author, a training and supervising psychoanalyst shares his thoughts about “online therapy.” The author was doing research on “techno-ethics” for a workshop he will be doing, and the premise of his blog post is that any online therapy is not “real” psychotherapy. Of course, psychiatrists do [...]
Tagged mirror neurons, online therapy, simulation, therapeutic allianceI saw an interesting article regarding changes in the rules for credentialing doctors to do telemedicine in other hospitals. Basically, the rules up to now appear to have been that the doctor needs to be credentialed at the hospital he or she works at, but not necessarily at the hospital he or she providing telemedicine [...]
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