Telemental health – Is it “Virtually” perfect

VA telemental health: suicide assessment.

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) encompasses one of the largest telemental health networks in the world, with over 45,000 videoconferencing and over 5,000 home telemental health encounters annually. Recently, the VA designated suicide prevention as a major priority, with telehealth modalities providing opportunities for remote interventions. Suicide risk assessments, using videoconferenc...

Telemental health: videoconferencing in mental health services

The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists defined telepsychiatry as ‘the use of communication technology to provide psychiatric services from a distance’ (Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists 1999). The technologies can include landline phones, mobile phones (using voice and/or texting), e-mail, social networking websites, illness-specific computer progr...

Introduction: Virtually Perfect Security (Transcript of Discussion)

A lexicon of assessment and outcome measures for telemental health.

BACKGROUND The purpose of this document is to provide initial recommendations to telemental health (TMH) professionals for the selection of assessment and outcome measures that best reflect the impacts of mental health treatments delivered via live interactive videoconferencing. MATERIALS AND METHODS The guidance provided here was created through an expert consensus process and is in the form...

Resilient and Virtually Perfect Revenue From Perfectly Informed Players

We put forward a new extensive-form mechanism that, in a general context with perfectly informed players and quasi-linear utilities, • Has a unique subgame-perfect equilibrium at which it virtually achieves optimal revenue; • Is perfectly resilient to the problems of collusion, complexity, and privacy; and • Works for any number of players n > 1.