The talk will cover pandemic mental health effects, current drivers of telepsychiatry use in the USA and around the world, the practice of telepsychiatry during Covid-19 and how this is good for clinician well-being as well as discussing some Covid-19 silver linings and long term telepsychiatry trends.

• Western Sydney before the COVID disruption
• The establishment of the WSD Virtual Care
• Additional digital solutions
• Capacity building for healthcare providers
• A hybrid face to face and virtual care approach after the pandemic

• Examining and understanding the practical barriers to adoption and most significant challenges
• Myth busting perceptions about telehealth
• Overcoming those barriers – learnings from case studies/examples what has worked, effective partnerships etc
• Scaling up rapidly – how do we sustain at an appropriate level?
• Evaluation – how and what do you measure and evaluate? How do we evaluate patient outcomes? What are the models of care?

• What has been done, learnings and successes to date
• Impact of telehealth & the significance of having a more established telehealth presence in the community e.g. chronic disease management
• What tech works for her and why
• What does it take to make it a success?

• Eastern Health’s Aged Persons Mental Health Service delivered two 9-week ACT-based psychotherapy group programs via Zoom in 2020, aimed at providing psychological intervention to improve mental health-related distress and dysfunction for older people (65+) living with major mental illness
• First case study for telehealth-delivered group psychotherapy for older people with major mental illness
• Qualitative and quantitative data will be presented to demonstrate efficacy of the group improving health outcomes (reducing psychiatric symptoms) from clients’ perspectives, as well as from clinicians’ perspectives who delivered the group
• Finally, a cost/benefit analysis of running the group via telehealth from three perspectives – client, clinician, and service – will also be discussed

Aligning clinical and technological components, best practices and experiences in remote monitoring to develop a framework as part of the virtual care accelerator program. A clinical engagement and patient safety perspective.

• Regional and Tertiary Collective Partnership
• Virtual care closer to home
• Digital health the conduit to healthcare providers
• Meeting the delivery of Mental Health support in the Digital space

• Telehealth improves access to those at significant distance from centralised specialist care in YOD
• Utilising telehealth can reduce cost of providing care for both health system and families
• Provision of care via telehealth is acceptable to patients and families and improves regional metropolitan-regional links for access to collaborative care
• Changing culture and adoption of telehealth for neuropsychological assessment

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