title: Integrating Telemental Healthcare with the Patient-Centered Medical Home Model.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The purpose of this article is to discuss how telemental healthcare and the patient-centered medical home (PCMH) can be integrated to improve the quality of mental healthcare available.
  
  
  METHODS
  This article outlines the components of a PCMH, and how the needs of this type of system of care can benefit from telemental healthcare.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The princples of PCMHs are being increasingly promoted in a variety of settings. In order to fulfill these principles, mental heathcare must be a integral part of the care provided to patients within the PCMH. The mental healthcare workforce is inadequate to provide care for patients, particularly in rural and high-poverty areas. Telemental healthcare provides a means to extend mental health services to the PCMHs using a variety of models.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Telemental healthcare offers unique opportunities to bridge the need for mental healthcare integration in the PCMH for all patients.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, University of Nebraska Medical Center , Omaha, Nebraska.
authors.forename: Jennifer K
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: McWilliams
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D018802:Patient-Centered Care / Q000379:methods*; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000379:methods*; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000379:methods*