De Weger, Esther (2011) The introduction and evaluation of telehealth into a mental health service. In: International Journal of Integrated Care. 11 (6). Igitur publishing (doi:10.5334/ijic.725) (KAR id:55934)
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Abstract
Introduction: This two-year project involves the introduction and evaluation of telehealth into a mental health service. Phase 1 of the
services.
•• Quality of care
•• Access, communication, and relationship between inpatient, CMHT staff, service-users, carers
•• Telehealth for therapeutic work
•• Focus groups, interviews with: staff, service-users
•• Piloting of video conferencing facilities
•• Focus groups/interviews: (a) isolation of different teams; (b) communication, relationship between teams; (c) staff, service-users’
•• Literature review: identified relevant articles from 2000 onwards on the effectiveness of telehealth in mental health services and
•• Utilising the findings of (i) and (ii) to make recommendation.
Conclusions: The combined findings from the focus groups and literature review have identified ways of introducing and evaluating
•• Per site: 1 meeting room with 1 large screen for team activities (e.g. ward rounds).
•• Per site: 1 dedicated computer with web-cam for quickly arranged, 1-1 calls (e.g. professional-professional, practice sharing).
Item Type: | Conference or workshop item (Paper) |
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DOI/Identification number: | 10.5334/ijic.725 |
Uncontrolled keywords: | video conferencing, telemedicine, mental health, telecare |
Subjects: | R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA790 Mental health |
Divisions: | Faculties > Social Sciences > School of Social Policy Sociology and Social Research > Centre for Health Services Studies |
Depositing User: | Tony Rees |
Date Deposited: | 14 Jun 2016 14:02 UTC |
Last Modified: | 29 May 2019 17:28 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/55934 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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