Study Shows Patients Want Mental Health Care to Remain Online Post-Coronavirus
After a few failed attempts at getting patients who would agree to see a telehealth psychiatrist, Jennifer Severe, a psychiatrist who had helped introduce telehealth initiatives at the University of Michigan outpatient clinic, and her colleagues were flooded with numerous videos chats after the pandemic hit. Non-urgent healthcare in Michigan was forced to go digital, with phone calls and video chats becoming the primary means for patients to communicate with their psychologists and psychiatrists. Nine months later, this is how a majority of patients have operated. Now, a new study led by Severe proposes that more than half of these…
