Benefits and Constraints of Telepsychiatry and Rural Healthcare in the United States and West Virginia

About 60 million individuals, or 19.3% of the U.S population, lived in rural areas. Rural areas have encountered a higher than average shortage of mental health services, transportation, number of providers, poverty, and lack of insurance. The purpose of this research was to analyze the quality of care with the utilization of telemedicine in psychiatric care as well as its potential cost-saving benefits to both the payers and patients in the US and West Virginia. Tele psychiatric has been a successfully integrated program into psychiatric facilities reaching rural, prisons or city facilities based on that it has increased the volume of patients in which physicians can reach out to and diagnose, as well as treat patients with limitations in his or her mobility. Several studies have found that telepsychiatry has improved access and quality of care available in rural environments. Telepsychiatry can improve mental health outcomes by linking rural patients to Urban high-quality mental healthcare services that follow evidence-based care and best practices. The utilization of telemedicine in the field of psychiatry is believed to provide better access, quality and care to the patients who necessitate psychiatric care in their overall medical care