STAT November 18, 2021
A huge success for rural telehealth
An innovative effort to pipe big-city mental health providers to primary care clinics in rural communities to treat PTSD and bipolar disorder showed overwhelmingly positive results, underscoring the potential of technology to address gaps in care. “It goes to show that if you provide evidence-based treatment to patients in underserved settings that haven’t had access to it before, that you can just make huge gains,” John Fortney, the lead researcher and a University of Washington professor, told Mario. But the project is also a clear example of the huge financial and logistical barriers involved in novel telehealth arrangements with faraway psychologists and psychiatrists. Read Mario’s story here.
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