NHS Human Services will soon begin to offer telepsychiatry services at the Helen Stevens Center in Carlisle and at NHS Capital Region in Harrisburg. Telepsychiatry services, as defined by OMHSAS, are services provided by a psychiatrist using real-time, two-way interactive audio-video transmission. They do not include a telephone conversation, electronic mail message, or facsimile transmission between a health care practitioner and a client, or a consultation between two health care practitioners, although these activities may support telepsychiatry services.
While telepsychiatry has many clinical applications, for the purposes of HealthChoices, telepsychiatry will be available for:
- Consultations
- Office or other outpatient visits
- Individual psychotherapy
- Psychiatric diagnostic interview examination
- Pharmacologic management