🎙️ Episode 326 | Digital In-Roads: How Virtual Mental Health Care is Revolutionizing Emergency Settings
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In this episode of Millennium Live, we sit down with Dr. Tom Milam, Chief Medical Officer at Iris Telehealth to explore how on-demand telepsychiatry is transforming emergency departments and inpatient care, addressing mental health crises with innovative digital solutions. Tom dives into how virtual mental health care—particularly telepsychiatry—is disrupting that status quo, offering timely psychiatric evaluations, reducing unnecessary inpatient admissions, and improving outcomes for both patients and healthcare systems. Tom also discusses the challenges and breakthroughs in implementing telepsychiatry in emergency settings, its integration with hospital EHRs, its role in reducing healthcare disparities, and the promising future ahead with greater innovation such as AI.
Whether you're a healthcare leader, clinician, or innovator, this conversation offers vital insights into the digital in-roads redefining mental health care—right where it’s most urgently needed.
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