JSA Health Telepsychiatry brings skilled mental health professionals – who are becoming increasingly scarce – into your facility on demand: 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. With one phone call or email, our psychiatrists and advanced nurse practitioners are available to your point of service within minutes.
JSA Health’s service span both geographic and budgetary boundaries. JSA Health’s psychiatric professionals expedite assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and disposition of patients in settings where it might otherwise be difficult and time-consuming to get appropriate services. These settings include emergency departments, rural health clinics, schools and universities, as well as correctional facilities including prisons and juvenile justice treatment centers. Your patients can be seen as soon as they need it and receive exactly the help they need.
JSA Health Telepsychiatry brings psychiatric services to places and patients previously unservable. We span both geographic and budgetary boundaries. Contracting with JSA Health Telepsychiatry can cost a fraction of hiring on-site staff. You pay for services only as you use them.
Easy to set up and maintain, modern, high-definition telemedicine technologies allows JSA Health Telepsychiatry staff to effectively diagnose and treat all sorts of patients in nearly any setting. This telemedicine technology is well-understood and used in corporate settings all across the world. All that is required is secure, high-speed internet access, and teleconferencing equipment that is HIPAA compliant, including equipment manufactured by Lifesize, Polycom, Cisco, and Sony. A JSA representative will link you with equipment resellers and technology support personnel that can install and maintain your telemedicine network.
How easy is it to do a telemedicine encounter? Once the equipment is set up, the facility staff phones JSA, and a JSA Staff member comes online within minutes. Customers pay only for a patient encounter, and there are no retainer fees.
Studies have shown that telepsychiatry is well-received by both patients and the institutions that use it. JSA Health Telepsychiatry cares deeply for its patient and institutional well-being. We routinely survey patients about their perception of our services, and we are consistently rated highly. In 2010, 92% of our clients rated themselves as “Satisfied” or “Very Satisfied” with our services.
More information about how telepsychiatry works, as well as research into telepsychiatry can be found at websites of the American Psychiatric Association, the RBHA Telemedicine Network, the American Telemedicine Association, and the UC Telemental Health Guide. Grant opportunities for telemedicine equipment and implementation are more frequently available and can be found through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, theUS Department of Health and Human Services, and the USDA Rural Development Telecommunications Program.
Advantages in Using JSA Health Telepsychiatry:
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Fast |
One phone call or email delivers psychiatric services to your site within minutes |
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24/7 |
JSA Health Psychiatrists are always on call. |
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Effective |
All JSA Health Telepsychiatry staff are experts in emergency psychiatry with special training in telemedicine. |
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Reduces Costs |
Clients pay for JSA Health Telepsychiatry only when they use it. |
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Reduces Risks |
Suicidal, homicidal or aggressive patients can be quickly and effectively diagnosed and given appropriate, calming treatment. |
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Private |
JSA Health Telepsychiatry is fully HIPAA compliant. |
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Flexible |
JSA Health staff provide the services that are needed, and only the services that are needed: emergent, urgent, and routine evaluations |
