Coviu's Telehealth Blog

World Mental Health Day will be held on 10th October 2021. It is a day for global mental health education, awareness, and advocacy. An initiative of the 'World Federation for Mental Health' to raise public awareness of mental health issues worldwide.

Dr. Richard Harvey is a telehealth evangelist and has been passionate about the potential of virtual care for over 30 years. In 2017 he established Telepsychiatrist.online - a highly successful virtual psychiatry clinic based in rural Victoria. Coviu interviewed Dr. Richard Harvey to learn more about his online practice and the delivery of psychiatry services online. Read on to see what Dr. Richard Harvey had to say.

Telepsychology sits within the broader category of telehealth. It refers to the delivery of mental health services through the use of telecommunication techniques to facilitate long-distance client and clinician contact, care, advice, reminders, education, intervention, and monitoring.

Dr. Rebecca Frost, Clinical Psychologist and Director of Benchmark Psychology How can we digitise healthcare services without compromising human interaction? For Benchmark Psychology this was one of the key questions when designing video telehealth services for their clients. Using Coviu’s Virtual Waiting Area, Benchmark Psychology was able to achieve exactly that - create a video telehealth service that is just like an in-person experience.

Ongoing lockdowns and COVID-19 restrictions have placed greater stress on our mental health, but the long-term implications remain somewhat of a mystery. The positive news is that more Aussies are willing to seek help, and in the digitally advanced world we live in now, there are many options out there.

Owners of PsychPlace, Scarborough, Western Australia

I first found out about the virus from my oncologist. He rushed in from the airport that morning for our regular check-up.

Kathy Matheson, Psychologist and Founder of Karepsych

Universal telehealth rebates have finally arrived in Australia in what Prime Minister Scott Morrison declared “is a decade's worth of work in a matter of days.”

However, the everyday Australian is excluded from these rebates.