At Access Psychiatry we conceptualize telebehavioral health technology and behavioral health integration in a “medium and message” context.  Telehealth technology is an excellent service delivery modality.  But the value of the service is only as good as the quality of the treatment, and telebehavioral health is not a treatment. 

For example - for a variety of reasons physician familiarity and adherence to evidence based practice guidelines for psychiatric conditions is limited.  In one report fewer than half of physicians regularly adhered to best practice guidelines for conditions as common as diabetes, asthma and depression.  In another, primary care physicians followed best practice guidelines less than  than 1/3 of the time. 

Validated but unused best practice guidelines are a little like a really good hammer left to rust in the rain.  Access Psychiatry can help you pick the hammer up and begin hitting a few nails on the head.