title: [Telepsychiatry, the potential to live up to its promise].
abstract: Telepsychiatry, or videoconferencing in psychiatry has existed for around forty years in a number of countries. Factors contributing to its development include difficulties in physically accessing specialists or in mobilising certain categories of patients (children, elderly or disabled people). Still not widely developed in France, certain technological and demographic evolutions nevertheless make it increasingly necessary.
authors.affiliation: Mission nationale d'appui en santé mentale, Paris. kannas@mnasm.com
authors.forename: Serge
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kannas
authors.forename: Catherine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Isserlis
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D003710:Demography; D006233:Persons with Disabilities / Q000523:psychology; D005602:France; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000639:trends*; D013672:Technology / Q000639:trends; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000639:trends*; D049269:Videoconferencing