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ATA Sponsors Briefing for Members of Congress re: National Licensure — Jan 31st

You may have been wondering when this was going to happen, but recent events are making a sea-change toward national licensure more of an reality as our  lawmakers are steadily being drawn into the public eye.  On January 31st, there was a briefing for members of Congress outlining the problems related to our current system [...]

American Telemedicine Association Survey – Please Complete

Dear Colleagues: Broad deployment of telemedicine requires common approaches and uniform practices. For over ten years ATA has been developing practice guidelines for the delivery of safe and effective healthcare via telemedicine. These guidelines are developed in cooperation with leading practitioners, researchers, societies and vendors. Nine such guidelines have been formally approved by the ATA [...]

Skype Webinar Audio Recording: 3 Reasons SKYPE Can be RISKY to Your Practice & How to Remedy

This webinar received an unexpected overflow audience. Clearly, mental health professionals are concerned about the use of Skype. The recording of this webinar is now available with 1 CE for $27. ~ Marlene M. Maheu, Ph.D. is the Executive Director of the TeleMental Health Institute, Inc., offering a Certificate training program in TeleMental Health for [...]

Dr. Maheu’s Skype Webinar of June 6, 2011

This blog post entry is to accommodate commentary from the community that has listened to the Skype webinar in real time or as an MP3 file. So, what do you think? Please let me know what you liked or didn’t like, what made you agree or disagree, or what other concerns you might have. Was [...]

Medicare Relaxes Restrictio​ns for Telehealth Credential​ing

Reimbursement rules are a-changing.  Starting July 5, 2011, Medicare will change its credentialing and privileging process for health care professionals providing services through telehealth systems. Hospitals will no longer be required to credential and privilege individual professionals providing telehealth services. Hospitals now need to be credentialed, rather than each and every practitioner wanting to deliver [...]

mHealth, iPhones & HIPAA Secured Telehealth & Telecommunication Platforms

mHealth is one of the fastest-growing areas of healthcare, funded by international players who understand that healthcare will soon be delivered to the consumer hip pocket rather than just to the desktop. We will bring you much more information on this topic in the near future, but for now plan to use this blog to [...]

West Virginia Legislators Introduce Bill to Define Telepsychology

Our legislative leaders are recognizing the importance of Telepsychology. In West Virginia, House Bill 3123 was introduced on Monday to define Tele psychology. It reads:

A BILL to amend and reenact §30-21-3 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended; and to amend said code by adding thereto a new section, designated §49-7-36, all relating to encouraging the use of telemedicine, telepsychology and video conferencing in order to make child welfare system more effective and efficient; defining telepsychology and specifying it is considered to be practicing psychology for licensing requirements.