Telehealth
COVID-19 pandemic is a global public health emergency. Telehealth is a great way to get the mental health care you need while still practicing social distancing.
What is Telehealth?
Telehealth is the use of electronic information and telecommunication technologies to extend care when you and the clinician aren’t in the same place at the same time.
Telehealth allows long-distance contact between patient and clinician. It offers a safer quality of care and enhances patient choice. If you have a phone or a device with the internet, you already have everything you need to do telehealth – you may be able to:
As a good faith provision of telehealth during the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency, clinicians may use popular video chat applications with patients — including Simple Practice, Psychology Today, Duo, or Skype.
Get the latest public health information from CDC: https://www.coronavirus.gov .
Get the latest research from NIH: https://www.nih.gov/coronavirus.
Find NCBI SARS-CoV-2 literature, sequence, and clinical content:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sars-cov-2/.
What is Telehealth?
Telehealth is the use of electronic information and telecommunication technologies to extend care when you and the clinician aren’t in the same place at the same time.
Telehealth allows long-distance contact between patient and clinician. It offers a safer quality of care and enhances patient choice. If you have a phone or a device with the internet, you already have everything you need to do telehealth – you may be able to:
- Talk to your clinician live over the phone or video chat
- Send and receive messages from your clinician using chat messaging, email, secure messaging, and secure file exchange
- Use remote patient monitoring so your clinician can check on you at home.
As a good faith provision of telehealth during the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency, clinicians may use popular video chat applications with patients — including Simple Practice, Psychology Today, Duo, or Skype.
Get the latest public health information from CDC: https://www.coronavirus.gov .
Get the latest research from NIH: https://www.nih.gov/coronavirus.
Find NCBI SARS-CoV-2 literature, sequence, and clinical content:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sars-cov-2/.