美国正在经历一场心理健康危机，这已经不是什么秘密了，因为大流行病的状况加剧了心理健康专业人员的短缺，特别是精神科医生的短缺。
因此，特别是由于大流行病的影响和要求，远程精神病学一直在上升。事实上，行为医疗甚至从CMS和私人支付者那里获得了大流行病前报销规则的特别豁免。
Dr. James R. Varrell is chief medical officer and founder of Array Behavioral Care and a practicing psychiatrist. Varrell was among the first to perform telepsychiatry – back in 1999, before the Internet, via phone lines. This was through a state-sponsored grant in New Jersey. Array Behavioral Care has been at telepsychiatry for 20 years, with a large base of virtual psychiatrists.
In an interview with Healthcare IT News, Varrell talks about how healthcare organizations are coping via telepsychiatry with the mental health crisis, how tele-psychiatry has changed over the last two decades and the requisite bedside manner for tele-psychiatry.
