1. Georgia Partnership for Telehealth Annual Spring Conference
Lake Oconee, GA
March 14-16, 2012
A Story of Clinical
Success:
the DMH Telepsychiatry
Consultation Program
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3. Benchmarks
 November 2007 – TDE 1st Award
 May 2009 – Presented at APA Conv.
 August 2009 – EMR Operational
 June 2010 – TDE 2nd Award; Finalist in
Computerworld Honors Awards
 October 2011 – Silver Award at APA
 February 2012 – 10,000 Consults
 May 2012 – Presenting at APA Conv.
 June 2012 – TDE 3rd Award
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5. Primary Goals
 Timely Psychiatric Assessment & Rapid
Initiation of Treatment
 Increase Quality of Care
 Reduction in Length of Stay (LOS)
 Comprehensive Discharge Planning
 Savings to the Hospital and Community
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7. 24/7/365 Operations
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8. Measures
 Lengths of Stay
 50% reduction
 Discharges, Same Day
 42% (Feb 2012)
 CIS and EMR Utilization
 75-80% Known Across Both Databases
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9. Telepsychiatry Turn-Around
 5.5 hours (CY 2011)
 13.5 consults every 24 hours (CY 2012)
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11. RO1 Grant Research
Collateral Effect: Reallocation of
Resources by ED’s to ED-appropriate care.
Reduced Commitment Rate to BH inpatient
beds
Reduction in Average Inpatient LOS
Produced savings of $1,000 in BH inpatient
settings per care episode.
Equals approximately $9.8 million in BH
inpatient savings
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12. Satisfaction Surveys
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17. SC Uniform Credentialing
Application for Physicians
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19. Website
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20. How It Works
Columbia, SC Charleston, SC
Aiken, SC
Conway, SC
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21. For more information, or for
questions, please visit our
website:
www.scdmh.org/telepsychiatry
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