mHealth Intelligence February 10, 2020
Faced with care providers wanting to use telehealth to deliver mental health services and a growing population in need of better access to care, state medical boards are taking the lead in crafting telemental health guidelines.
Faced with a nationwide opioid abuse crisis and a surge of people needing mental health services, states are moving to embrace telehealth as a means of expanding access to treatment. But the path to better care is still bumpy.
State adoption of telemental health guidelines “is obviously continuing to grow, (and) trending in the right direction,” says Amy Lerman, a member of the Epstein Becker Green law firm who specializes in telehealth and telemedicine law. “But every state has its own set of rules.”
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