Telepsychiatry Technology helps doctors reach out to rural Maine

Telepsychiatry Technology helps doctors reach out to rural Maine: "Grab one of Maine's skinny, rural phonebooks, turn to the yellow pages and look up 'psychiatrists.' In many areas, there will be just one doctor listed -- or none at all. It's illustrative of a problem: Many Mainers lack access to psychiatric care.
But a ground-breaking, first-in-the-nation initiative launched this summer is attempting to link rural patients to doctors in more populous areas. Using high-capacity phone lines, cameras and television screens, doctors are now consulting with patients hundreds of miles away, while seeming like they're sitting just a few feet away"