Mobile tele-mental health: Increasing applications and a move to hybrid models of care

Healthcare (Switzerland)

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 220-233

  Chan, Steven Richard ^a   Torous, John ^b   Hinton, Ladson ^a   Yellowlees, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Harvard Longwood Psychiatry Residency Training Program   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecological momentary assessment; Mental disorders; Mobile; Psychiatry; Smartphone; Technology; Telemedicine; Telemental health; Telepsychiatry; Videoconferencing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907220609     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22279032     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/healthcare2020220     Document Type: Article

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