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NARBHA offered its second semi-annual "Telepsychiatry Basics" seminar March 13, 2009. The seminar, which offers clinical, technical, and administrative information on tele-mental health, attracted 28 participants from Arizona and six other states. |
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- New interactive resource for Telemental Health programs from the University of Colorado Denver.
- NARBHA's Nancy Rowe presented as part of a panel on "Buying the Technology of Telehealth" at the American Telemedicine Association's 2009 annual meeting.
- NARBHA received an honorable mention in February 2009 as a Program of Significance by the National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare "for their very GREEN, environmentally conscious, innovative telemedicine program."
- Carbon emissions savings: Did you know...
- From January 1, 2008 to December 31, 2008, the NARBHA telemedicine network saved over 104,000 miles of driving and over 1800 hours of drive time by 15 psychiatric providers.
- This saved 37.4 tons of CO2 from being added to earth's atmosphere.
- This doesn't include all the staff who save countless hours of drive time throughout the 62,000 square miles of Northern Arizona by using the telemedicine network for meetings.
- "Ten Year Experience of a Private Nonprofit Telepsychiatry Service": arcticle on NARBHA's long-term client satisfaction survey published in Telemedicine and e-Health, December 2008
- Federal
rebates for FY07/08 obtained for clinical sites
- NARBHA telepsychiatry mentioned in Videoconferencing Insight Newsletter
- NARBHA telepsychiatry cited in Snohomish County, WA, Herald
- NARBHA reports client satisfaction survey results at American Telemedicine Association 2008 annual meeting
- New clinical use for NARBHAnet: In October 2007, an American Sign Language interpreter began coming to NARBHA headquarters in Flagstaff each week, where she videoconferences into psychiatric sessions in Kingman and Bullhead City to provide ASL interpretation services between patient and doctor. NEW: She presented on these experiences at the American Telemedicine Association's 2009 annual meeting.
- NARBHAnet adds new sites and connections
- NARBHA presents on telemedicine at the Colorado Behavioral Health Council annual meeting, Oct. 5, 2007
- NARBHA
telepsychiatry featured in Social Work
Today, Jan.-Feb. 2007 issue
- NARBHA
telepsychiatry mentioned in Healthcare
Informatics, February 2007 issue
- NARBHA
telepsychiatry featured in the New York
Times, June 8, 2006
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- NARBHA's
telemedicine network featured in May 2006
JCAHO Advisor (470K
PDF reprinted with permission of JCAHO
Advisor for Behavioral Health Care Providers,
C&R Publications, Brookdale Plaza, 750 Washington
Ave., Ste. 7, Revere, MA 02151)
- NARBHAnet
mentioned in September 2005 East Valley
Tribune article on Arizona telemedicine
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