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Addressing timely care, workforce shortage via telepsychiatry
Author(s) -
Canady Valerie A.
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
mental health weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7583
pISSN - 1058-1103
DOI - 10.1002/mhw.31764
Subject(s) - telepsychiatry , workforce , economic shortage , mental health , business , witness , order (exchange) , nursing , health care , telemedicine , medicine , psychiatry , political science , economic growth , economics , finance , linguistics , philosophy , government (linguistics) , law
The field continues to witness a rapidly growing demand for behavioral health services and the lack of psychiatrists to meet this demand. Leveraging staff to care for the influx of patients becomes even more important. Subsequently, some community mental health organizations are taking the leap into telepsychiatry services in order to fill expected workforce gaps.