Telepresence & Psychiatry: When the Very Best is Finally Good Enough

October 30, 2008 This presentation described consumers' and professionals' satisfaction with a telepsychiatry demonstration project currently being conducted in rural Washington State. Both patients and physicians indicated no significant differences between a face-to-face encounter and treatment using telepresence. Telepresence is a type of video conferencing monitor that closely simulates/represents eye contact and enables the participants to speak naturally to the screen image. Many other video conferencing monitors and cameras require users to speak to the camera rather than the image on the screen . . .