Interactive television for an urban adult mental health service: the Guy'spsychiatric intensive care unit telepsychiatry project

Authors
Haslam, R McLaren, P
Citation
R. Haslam et P. Mclaren, Interactive television for an urban adult mental health service: the Guy'spsychiatric intensive care unit telepsychiatry project, J TELEMED T, 6, 2000, pp. 50-52
Citations number
8
Categorie Soggetti
Health Care Sciences & Services
Journal title
JOURNAL OF TELEMEDICINE AND TELECARE
ISSN journal
1357633X → ACNP
Volume
6
Year of publication
2000
Supplement
1
Pages
50 - 52
Database
ISI
SICI code
1357-633X(2000)6:<50:ITFAUA>2.0.ZU;2-G
Abstract
We carried out a feasibility study of an interactive television (IATV) syst em to enhance the provision of psychiatric intensive care services to a rem ote adult acute psychiatric ward in the same National Health Service mental health trust. The system used videoconferencing equipment connected by ISD N at 128 kbit/s. The system was used for patient referral, assessment and m onitoring by staff at the remote site 8 km away.