Telemental health?
This is monstrous. Too many people in this country have no idea what is in store if this thing passes.
It is remotely administered mental health care.
This is a monstrosity.
I work in radiology, and teleradiology is a big deal for the military and a lot of hospitals now.
Telemedicine is being tried in some areas like parts of Nova Scotia where there might not be a hospital for 700 miles, and someone needs followup evaluation after surgery (or something like that)
They have a unit they send them home with that can basically do a teleconference, there are cameras where they can see a surgical site or things like that. When done, they stick the thing in the mail and send it back to the hospital.
I don’t have much experience with it, but I have heard about it.
At my hospital, we actually have a robot that can be remotely driven (or taken) to a patient’s bedside, and a clinician at home can consult on an issue in a pinch if there is no specialist immediately available in the time frame needed. To be honest, I think the damned thing might freak out some patients if it appeared at their bedside unattended while they were on morphine, but as a techhie, I kind of like the concept. It has a macro camera on it so it can get very close up pictures, a different wide angle one, and might even have an infrared one, etc.