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The practice of telepsychiatry is usually defined as the use of videoconferencing to perform psychiatric consultations. In this chapter we are more inclusive and include any clinical interactions that are mediated or enabled by technology in which the doctor or therapist and the patient are not physically together. So although the practice of using videoconferencing for psychiatric assessment and treatment is more than 60 years old and telephony has been used for more than a century, email, secure texting, and home monitoring using multiple smartphone-based mobile devices are much more recent.
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