Originally published on The Daily Item. 

By: Joe Sylvester

LEWISBURG — Evangelical Community Hospital patients who needed a psychiatric consultation in the past sometimes had to wait two or three days to talk to a psychiatrist.

Since February, the wait has been an average of 90 minutes but no longer than 4 hours, thanks to technology provided by a New Jersey company.

InSight, based in Marlton, N.J., provides telepsychiatry services via computer screen. Once contacted, the company can have a board-certified psychiatrist on screen within an hour or so. A hospital staff member wheels the screen, attached to a cart, to the patient, and the patient can talk to the psychiatrist in private. An on-screen camera allows the doctor to see the patient, said Hannah Richards, a registered nurse in Evangelical’s emergency department.

Telepsychiatry services for the Evangelical’s emergency department

When a patient with a psychiatric issue comes to the emergency room or is admitted to one of the floors, the hospital contacts InSight, which has a time limit of 4 hours to have a psychiatrist call back. The screen is brought to the patient for the consultation after the doctor comes on it, Richards said.

“We can do it both in the ER and upstairs on any patient floor,” said Christal Dixon, director of nursing specialty services at Evangelical.

She said the hospital has three screens for the service, which the hospital began implementing in January and started using in February. Now the services are used six or seven times a month, Dixon said.

While she wouldn’t reveal the cost, she said the flat fee is significantly less than the cost of the local services the hospital previously used. The hospital also pays a fee for each consultation.

“We used a service before, but it would take two to three days,” Dixon said.

She said the local service also wasn’t available for late-night or weekend consultations.

She and Richards said the hospital could always contact CMSU if a patient was a danger to himself, herself or others or needed immediate placement in a facility.

She and Evangelical spokeswoman Deanna Hollenbach said one problem is the shortage of psychiatrists in the Valley. Hollenbach said Evangelical, Geisinger Health System and other groups sponsored a community needs assessment in the region, and it found psychiatric services were lacking.

Dixon said InSight is certified and its psychiatrists credentialed to work in Pennsylvania. Its psychiatrists can see the patients’ medical records electronically before consulting with them and prescribing medications, if needed. Evangelical doctors can bounce suggestions off the psychiatrists in a followup call.

“This company has been doing this for over 18 years,” she said.

Richards said the telepsychiatrist also can do consultations with the patient and family members.

“I think it’s really beneficial,” Richards said. “It was difficult to treat a patient holistically. We have the medical part down but not the psychiatric.”

Richards said patients have made positive comments about the service.

We are proud that several members of the Regroup team, including Hossam M. Mahmoud, M.D., M.P.H., Omar Elhaj, M.D., and Naveen Kathuria, J.D., will contribute to this year’s conference theme, Revitalize Psychiatry: Disrupt, Include, Engage & Innovate, by presenting on four important areas in the field of psychiatry. Join them during the following times to learn about telepsychiatry, LGBT mental health, and refugee mental health and healthcare advocacy.

Regroup Telehealth is presenting at the APA Annual Meeting

Telepsychiatry: From Concept to Implementation

Date: Sunday, May 19

Time: 8:00 AM–9:30 AM

This session aims to focus on the practical components that facilitate and - at times - restrict the implementation of telepsychiatry services. Presenters will discuss three practical aspects of implementation, including regulatory complexities, steps for successful deployment of telepsychiatry services from the healthcare facility perspective, and opportunities and challenges facing clinicians practicing telepsychiatry.

Refugees, Immigrants and Asylum Seekers: Mental Health, Advocacy, and Human Rights

Date: Tuesday, May 21

Time: 10:00 AM–11:30 AM

This session will discuss different aspects of forced migration and its connection to mental health. Presenters will discuss a variety of elements related to this topic, including: forced migration and its contributing, perpetuating and mitigating factors, mental health sequelae of the trauma associated with the forced displacement and family separations, and diagnostic and clinical challenges that clinicians face when working with refugees, asylum seekers and other forcefully displaced populations.

LGBT Mental Health: Health Care, Innovation, and Advocacy

Date: Tuesday, May 21

Time: 3:00 PM–4:30 PM

This session discusses the different roles that mental health professionals play, as clinicians, healthcare innovators, and human rights advocates in advancing the mental health of the LGBT community. Presenters will highlight considerations when providing LGBT mental healthcare, the role of telepsychiatry as an approach to providing mental healthcare access to LGBT individuals, and the role mental health professionals play when LGBT refugees seek asylum in the United States.

Creating Impact at the District Branch Level: Lessons Learned From Illinois

Date: Wednesday, May 22

Time: 1:00 PM–2:30 PM EST

In this session, panelists will discuss the important roles of district branches and highlight the need to continue to expand such roles, coordinate efforts and share experiences to enhance their impact at the local level. They will focus on the experiences and lessons learned from the Illinois district branch, the Illinois Psychiatric Society (IPS). They will highlight past, present and planned initiatives by IPS in the areas of member engagement, mental health advocacy, and physician well-being.

For complete session descriptions, visit the APA’s Annual Meeting website.

"The winners each year are innovations that uniquely fill unmet needs, spark a competitive response in the marketplace, exceed market expectations, achieve financial success, and improve people’s lives."

Regroup Wins a Chicago Innovation Award

Every year, the Chicago Innovation Awards honors the region's "most innovative products, services and companies."

"The winners each year are innovations that uniquely fill unmet needs, spark a competitive response in the marketplace, exceed market expectations, achieve financial success, and improve people’s lives," the group says. "They emerge from the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. Most importantly, the Chicago Innovation Awards remind us that innovation is thriving in the Chicago region."

Meet this year's winners, including winners of the Social Innovation, Collaboration, Chicago Neighborhood Awards, Up-and-Comer and People's Choice awards.

Abbott

When it comes to infant nutrition, the benefits of breast milk are beyond dispute. But because not every mother can breast feed, Abbott Labs has succeeded in unlocking the potential of mother’s milk for ready-to-feed formula. Unlike other infant-nutrition formulas, Abbott’s Similac Pro-Advance and Pro-Sensitive formulas contain a prebiotic plant fiber that beneficially nourishes bacteria already in an infant’s bowels. Prebiotics are different but similar to the more familiar probiotics, which introduce good bacteria into the gut. Prebiotics fertilize good bacteria that’s already present. Infant-nutrition formulas all contain an ingredient known in pediatric circles as a Human Milk Oligosaccharide, or HMO, the third most-abundant ingredient in breast milk after fat and carbohydrates. HMOs circulate throughout the infant’s body, and strengthen the baby’s immune system to be more like the breastfed infant’s. Abbott replicated HMOs so that babies who drink formula can benefit from them. Similac Pro-Advance and Pro-Sensitive are the only formulas available with an added HMO that is bio-structurally identical to the HMO found in mother's milk, and it is produced in a similar way to the way some vitamins are made.

Shirley Ryan AbilityLab

Integrating research with clinical care is of critical importance, and long overdue. Currently, 86% of scientific discoveries never make it out of the lab. That’s countless approaches, treatments and even potential cures that could speed recovery or save lives, but are never fully or effectively developed. The Shirley Ryan AbilityLab (renamed from the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago in 2017) is integrating science with intention to close this gap and has been explicitly designed to enable translation of research into care faster. The $550 million, 1.2-million-square-foot Shirley Ryan is the first-ever "translational" research hospital in which clinicians, scientists, innovators and technologists work together in the same space, 24/7, surrounding patients, discovering new approaches and applying (or "translating") research real time. The goal: better, faster outcomes for patients.

Fooda

A Fooda Food Hall replaces all the stations in a traditional cafeteria with a line-up of top-rated local guest restaurants that changes every day, bringing people a wide variety of high-quality meal options at work. The food cost the same, or less than it would in the restaurants. The Food Hall model is a win-win-win solution for 1) Restaurants, who love the added revenue at lunch and the opportunity to get in front of thousands of new people – many of whom will visit the restaurant’s brick and mortar location at night and on the weekends; 2) Employees in the cafeteria’s building, who love supporting local businesses while having an authentic dining experience (rather than food made from the same kitchen, using the same bulk ingredients, and following the same corporate recipes); and 3) The buildings and companies that own the cafeterias, whose costs are reduced by as much as 30%, compared to what they previously experienced from the legacy cafeteria model. While Fooda is disrupting the cafeteria space, staples like made-to-order grill programs, salad bars, delis, grab-and-go snacks, espresso and beverages remain. Food Halls in Chicago can be found in the corporate headquarters of Northern Trust, Hyatt, and 540 West Madison (formerly known as Bank of America Plaza).

Reverb.com

Reverb.com is the online marketplace to buy, sell and learn about new, used, and vintage music gear. Since launching in 2013, Reverb.com has grown into the world’s most popular music gear website, with more than 10 million musicians and music lovers visiting the website each month. Built by and for musicians, the marketplace makes it easy for anyone — from beginner musicians, mom-and-pop shops, and boutique builders to collectors, large retailers, and rock stars — to connect over the perfect piece of music gear.

Simple Mills

Simple Mills Almond Flour Crackers and Sprouted Seed Crackers contain no grain, gluten, soy, GMOs, or artificial flavors or fillers. For the rapidly growing number of consumers who follow diets adhering to these new “clean food” standards, these products fill a critical void. All of the company’s products are made with simple, whole-food, nutrient-dense ingredients and share the same healthy and “free from” benefits without sacrificing taste and texture, in many cases providing the only viable option for consumers who have restricted diets either by choice or necessity.

Livongo

Livongo has a vision of empowering all people with chronic conditions to live better and healthier lives. We are redesigning chronic condition management, starting with diabetes, by driving behavior change through the combination of consumer health technology, personalized recommendations, and real-time support at the point of impact. Powered by advanced analytics, we create personalized experiences for our members so they receive the right information, tools, and support, at the right time. Our approach is leading to better financial and clinical outcomes while creating a better experience for all people with chronic conditions and their care team of family, friends, and medical professionals.

Valent BioSciences

The traditional way to control adult mosquitoes is to blanket a wide area with a broad spectrum insecticide, but to do so in the evening, when mosquitoes are most active, and beneficial insects such as bees and butterflies are not. Spreading insecticides that target adult mosquitoes during evening hours keeps the insecticide floating in the air close to the ground where mosquitoes live. Zika mosquitoes, however, are active during daylight hours along with bees and other beneficial insects. Valent BioSciences’ VectoBac larvicide, coupled with the company’s innovative wide area larvicide spray technology platform, meets this challenge by delivering a highly targeted biorational insecticide directly into the tiny, hard-to-reach volumes of water where these mosquitoes breed and larvae grow.

150 N. Riverside

150 North Riverside is a 54-story, Class A+ office tower with approximately 1.23 million square feet of rentable space. The building, designed by architect Goettsch Partners, occupies less than 25 percent of its two-acre site and utilizes a combination of unique design methodologies, material selections and technology infrastructure which, in combination, were able to overcome the physical limitations of one of Chicago’s most technically challenging sites. The building structure’s core-supported design results in the 750-foot tower resting atop a base that is merely 38 feet wide. This narrow building footprint allows for more than 75 percent of the property to be unenclosed outdoor space, vastly improving the pedestrian experience on and surrounding the site. The park and plaza have provided over 1,000 lineal feet of seating, multiple assembly/event spaces, and 360 feet of riverwalk frontage, which has already become one of the most populated circulation paths for downtown commuters.

Narrative Science

Despite investing significant resources in data and analytics, organizations struggle to see engagement and adoption of Business Intelligence platforms due to their complexity and the time required to interpret the data. Enter, Narratives for Business Intelligence, a suite of Advanced Natural Language Generation (Advanced NLG) extensions for the world’s leading BI and analytics platforms, including Qlik, Microsoft, Tableau, MicroStrategy and Sisense. Natural language extensions from Narrative Science can also be natively embedded into any proprietary BI or open source visualization platform, dynamically explaining insights in plain English and surfacing relationships not obvious in charts, graphs, or tables.

SpotHero

After building an industry-leading parking marketplace via website and app, SpotHero introduced HeroConnect, a parking mobility platform in 2017, encompassing an open API, SDK and embeddable web widget tools. The HeroConnect Platform provides third parties the development tools necessary to seamlessly offer transactional parking functionality in their native platforms. This allows the broader transportation industry, from automakers to car rental, navigation and data companies, to put SpotHero in their cars, equipment and apps. The innovation serves the mission of a painless, holistic urban mobility ecosystem by connecting automotive and related technology with the broadest network of parking supply in North America. Amid the next wave of vehicle innovation for the drivers of tomorrow, it eliminates hurdles and improves the experience of every journey.

SOCIAL INNOVATION AWARD WINNER

Regroup Telehealth

Regroup Therapy is pioneering Telepsychiatry-as-a-Service across the US. Many of us know that 1 in 5 members of the US population will require access to mental health services each year. What often is not as well understood until care is needed is the deep scarcity of mental health clinicians. 55% of US counties don’t have a single mental health clinician. With an innovative telepsych service platform, Regroup Therapy more efficiently distributes mental health professionals; providing help where the need is greatest.

COLLABORATION AWARD WINNER

Benefit Chicago

Benefit Chicago is aiming to raise and invest $100 million in patient, flexible, and risk-tolerant capital, in for-profit and nonprofit social enterprises throughout the region, that are working to build wealth, create jobs, and enhance job readiness. Individuals, corporations, and philanthropies, can support our efforts by investing in our community investment notes.

CHICAGO NEIGHBORHOOD AWARDS

Oak Street Health

Oak Street Health is a network of primary care centers for adults on Medicare in ‘healthcare deserts.’ We provide an entirely different model of care that is based on value for our patients instead of volume of services. Our centers are located where this is little or no quality healthcare, and we provide care that is personal, spending more than twice as long with our patients. We also hold ourselves accountable for our patients’ health, taking on the risks and costs of their care and providing every patient with the same great care. Most importantly, we are making an impact, providing quality care while reducing hospitals stays and providing an experience like no other. We are redefining healthcare as it should be.

Boombox

Boombox is Chicago's first pop-up storefront constructed from an upcycled shipping container available for a variety of retail, cultural, community, and marketing experiences. Boombox entrepreneurs innovate at the small scale through this unique space to understand new audiences, realize new markets, and activate their community. Our locations anchor neighborhood commercial corridors across Chicago and can create a comprehensive social enterprise to transform vacant urban spaces as part of redeveloping neighborhood innovation districts. Vacant sites from land to public plazas to transit stations can be repurposed into markets that allow Boombox to bridge the gap between "startup and storefront" for small business in Chicago.

WINGS Program

The Safe House at WINGS Metro, along with WINGS suburban shelter, are the only ones in the state of Illinois to house male and transgender victims of domestic violence who also are provided with private bathrooms. WINGS has a unique approach to assisting victims of domestic violence which is its key to success. Other organizations offer counseling and education services only; some provide emergency shelter or transitional housing only; WINGS is the only domestic violence provider to assist survivors at all level of services and needs.

UP-AND-COMER AWARD WINNERS 

BallotReady

BallotReady creates datasets and digital tools to inform voters on their entire ballot, every election. Last fall, millions of voters entered the voting booth prepared to vote for president and unprepared for the rest of their ballot. As a result, voters guessed, left blanks, or stayed home altogether. BallotReady believes elected officials matter - all the way down the ballot. We build products to engage voters at every level of government, powered by the comprehensive and complete dataset to local elections.

Georama

Georama’s live mobile video insights platform enables organizations to gather or provide insights from anywhere in the world in real-time. Using Georama's proprietary software, broadcasters can share their perspective LIVE from smartphones or smart glasses in reliable HD video while being completely mobile indoors and outdoors, even in poor network conditions. Viewers can watch on any device and interact with broadcasters in real-time to control the experience. Georama's B2B SaaS platform provides a complete solution for customer insights and location insights, with use-case specific features and workflows, along with automation and analytics powered by AI. Georama's customer insights solution enables brands and agencies to generate deeper in-the-moment insights globally for areas including customer experience, shopper insights, and ethnography, in a fraction of the time and money. Georama's location insights solution enables education, hospitality, and industrial organizations to give their customers, partners, or internal stakeholders a live and personalized virtual tour of any location when a physical visit is not feasible.

NowPow

NowPow, a play on knowledge is power, is a women-owned and led technology company based on Chicago’s south side. The technology empowers care professionals to make highly matched social referrals, communicate with patients and service providers, and track referral outcomes. The multi-sided platform uniquely connects both sides of the referral process—“senders” and “receivers”—to better address patients’ social determinants of health and improve care transitions across networks.

Tovala

In 2015, David Rabie and Bryan Wilcox founded Tovala on a simple premise; busy people want an effortless way to eat delicious, healthy home-cooked meals. By combining an internet-connected steam oven with meals prepared by world-class chefs, dinner is as easy as scanning a barcode. Based in Chicago, IL, Tovala won the New Venture Challenge at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business in May 2015, completed Y Combinator in March 2016, and began shipping across the U.S. in May 2017. At launch, The Wall Street Journal said: "Tovala turns out super-fast, consistent restaurant-quality meals, making it the first connected kitchen device with real mass appeal.

Chowly

Chowly integrates Restaurant Aggregator (UberEats, Eat24, etc.) orders into the restaurant’s current point of sale system so staff members don’t waste time manually entering them. Chowly lowers staffing costs by eliminating the need for staff to do data entry. Eliminating this need allows restaurants to add on as many platforms as they wish increasing their net sales. Our automated solution vastly decreases errors as orders are always inputted correctly and quickly.

PhysIQ

PhysIQ VitaLink for Clinical Trials is a specialized patient monitoring solution that applies FDA-cleared machine learning analytics to sensor-derived physiological data to transform continuous heart rate, respiration rate, activity, etc into personalized patient insight. Their scalable, device agnostic, CFR Part 11-compliant cloud based platform is transforming how pharma and medical device companies leverage continuous real world data to validate the safety and efficacy of their products. PhysIQ is deploying, internationally, its one-of-a-kind platform to collect and analyze data to support clinical trials across multiple therapeutic areas, including cardiovascular health, pain, neurocognitive disease, and oncology. Recently recognized as one of the most disruptive companies in the clinical trials space, physIQ is working with the biggest names in the biopharma and medical device industries.

ExplORer Surgical

ExplORer is an interactive playbook for the operating room and interventional suite that reduces disruptions and wasted disposables by improving team communication. ExplORer also provides real-time performance and scheduling data to administrators to enhance quality of care and efficiency. Teams use the software to coordinate their activities while managing their tools and supplies in a way never before possible. The result is optimal teamwork, increased efficiency, and high performance.

Tock

Tock is a comprehensive platform built to fundamentally change the way restaurants think about and run their business. This includes the industry's first cloud-based reservation, guest, and table management system for restaurants, wineries, and other culinary experiences across the globe. Today, Tock has seated millions of guests, processed over $210M in prepaid reservations, and has built the definitive platform for discovering the best culinary experiences around the world - From Alinea, Milk Room, and Smyth and the Loyalist here in Chicago, to Eleven Madison Park, The French Laundry, The Fat Duck, Atelier Crenn, and hundreds more across the world.

Pearachute

Pearachute is a monthly membership club that makes it easy for parents and caregivers to discover, book, and drop into the best kids’ activities in your city. We create opportunities to bring families together in a way they never could before. Now dads can drop into basketball classes with their kids and moms can book parent/child coding classes–all at the touch of a button, all for one affordable monthly rate.

The LISA App

The beauty industry is a 75 billion dollar machine where the average service provider, who we call Artists, earns a poverty wage of 22K per year. LISA has created a B2B open-marketplace infrastructure to help the Artist community work entrepreneurially on their own terms. Corporations are spending a fortune recruiting, hiring and training top talent. LISA is able to assist these corporations with our 'next generation perk suite'. These companies love not only the services, but, the easy to use technology for their employees, allowing them to schedule, book and pay directly in The LISA App - saving the HR/ Benefit Directors 2-3 hours per week in maintenance. Companies like GrubHub, Echo, Enova, BBB, @properties, 1871, Ogilvy, SpotHero to name a few, are among the forward thinking companies that realize LISA does not just provide a ‘beauty service’ to their employees, but a smart and savvy technology they can be proud to share with their team.

PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD WINNER

Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

IN2 Steve and Jamie Chen Center for Innovation and Inquiry at the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy (IMSA) is Illinois' first secondary education innovation center. In true entrepreneurial spirit, this IMSA startup raised $2M in private funds to renovate 6,400 square feet and formally opened in 2017. IN2@IMSA nurtures the next generation of discoverers, creators and thinkers through STEM entrepreneurship and maker space education in a space that reflects the evolving collaborative, cross-sector, and high-tech nature of innovation. IN2@IMSA connects talented Illinois students to Chicago-area startups and mentors while providing a workspace for solution-based explorations and collaborations with corporations, external students and teachers. IN2 is guided by IMSA’s foundational philosophy of equity and excellence underpinning its mission to ignite and nurture creative, ethical, scientific minds than advance the human condition.

Originally featured in NBC Chicago

Launching a Telebehavioral Health Strategy: Addressing Gaps in Care and Increasing Access to Behavioral Health Services

Geoffrey Boyce, Chief Executive Officer of InSight Telepsychiatry, spoke at the 11^th Annual mHealth and Telehealth World Summit put on by World Congress on Thursday, August 1. He co-presented alongside Lan Chi “Krysti” Vo, MD, the Medical Director of Telehealth, Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Services of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Attendees included c-suite, VPs and directors of telehealth/telemedicine, virtual care, digital health, innovation, medical informatics and connected health organizations.

Boyce and Vo spoke about building and maintaining a telebehavioral health program using two distinct models. Here are the key takeaways from this presentation.

Academic Medical Center Example: Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, founded in 1855, is the nation’s first hospital for children. When they realized they had an increasing need for mental health services, they decided to leverage internal resources to meet these needs.

They utilize telepsychiatry in collaborative care models with aims to increase behavioral health access, provide additional support to behavioral health clinicians and provide education and training to pediatricians to increase their comfortability with managing behavioral health needs. With the collaborative care approach, they are able to leverage their own resources, including pediatricians, clinical social workers and psychologists, to provide mental health treatment to consumers. In this model, an individual meets with the telepsychiatry provider and pediatrician or therapist.

In addition to providing services internally with telepsychiatry, the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (DCAPBS) also plans to partner with various community entities to use telebehavioral health to meet the mental health needs of the community.

Outsourced Provider Example: InSight Telepsychiatry

InSight Telepsychiatry, a private telepsychiatry provider organization with 20 years of experience, partners with organizations such as hospitals, health systems, outpatient facilities, community mental health programs and more to provide access to psychiatrists and psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners.

While, implementing a telebehavioral health program with outside providers is often thought of as a “band-aid” for the immediate needs of an organization to backfill gaps and provide temporary coverage, InSight stresses that telepsychiatry needs to be seen as a long-term solution. With telepsychiatry, organizations can add more resources in the longer-term, use existing resources more effectively, improve efficacy of existing programs, develop new programs, facilitate behavioral health integration and build and enhance relationships.

Telepsychiatry enhances relationships with the in-house team, partners, fellow community agencies and consumers. Since telepsychiatry can be used across a wide variety of sites and settings, it also serves to connect communities. Connected community models create a comprehensive, sustainable and multi-faceted behavioral health strategy that improves treatment access at key entry points and across all levels of care.

Key Considerations for Implementing and Launching a Program

Before implementing and launching a program through either model, there are several key considerations. This includes, but is not limited to, reimbursement, licensure and credentialing, training and designing workflows. It is important to keep in mind that reimbursement varies by location and by state for Medicare, Medicaid and private payer coverage. When it comes to licensure, providers should be licensed in the state where the consumer is located and the licensure process also varies from state-to-state. There is often bureaucracy hindering the ability for providers to be credentialed at multiple sites in a timely manner so it is important for organizations to take into account how long the process takes.

Another consideration is how to train both onsite and remote team members. Onsite team members should know how to talk about telepsychiatry with consumers and how to communicate effectively with a remote provider. It is also important to consider who should be in the room with the individual and assist with the session, particularly with children. Organizations also need a telepsychiatry presenter to take vitals, set up rooms before sessions and connect to the telepsychiatry provider.

Remote providers need to know best practices at the organization where they are providing services such as where to make referrals, nuances of prescribing and how they are going to stay up to date with organizational changes and updates.

To stay up to date on telebehavioral health strategy, organizations such as the American Telemedicine Association, OPEN MINDS, Telehealth Resource Centers and the Center for Connected Health Policy are great resources.

MARLTON, NJ – InSight Telepsychiatry has named Michael Trumbo to its Chief Information Officer position.

Trumbo has extensive experience designing and implementing strategic technical solutions to support the needs and growth initiatives for progressive organizations in the healthcare sector.  He brings considerable expertise in developing technological infrastructure needed to support complex business operations, overseeing technical teams, managing vendor relationships, preparing IT budgets and forecasts, and creating and maintaining networks and systems that are secure, reliable, scalable and flexible.  Prior to joining InSight, Trumbo held IT leadership positions with organizations such as IndustrySafe, The Institutes, Geisinger Health System and Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield.  He holds a Master of Science in advanced information technology and a Bachelor of Science in business information systems from Stevenson University.

Trumbo joins the executive team at InSight and oversees the product and business systems teams.  He is responsible for aligning technological goals with organizational strategy and creating and executing an IT roadmap to help support InSight’s mission of delivering quality behavioral health care through innovative applications of technology.

Trumbo is initially tasked with helping to finalize the separation from our parent company’s IT team, establish a dedicated IT team at InSight and introduce network policies, procedures and standards specific to InSight.  He will also oversee the roll-out of several new enterprise systems and platforms as well as facilitate our upcoming headquarters relocation without interruption of services.

“I am honored to be a part of such a reputable, forward-thinking organization and look forward to collaborating with the leadership team to develop technological strategies and infrastructure to meet the current needs of the company as well as position it for continued growth and success,” says Trumbo.

About InSight Telepsychiatry

InSight is the leading national telepsychiatry service provider organization with a mission to increase access to quality behavioral health care through innovative applications of technology.  InSight has over two decades of telepsychiatry experience and serves hundreds of organizations across the country with its on-demand, scheduled services and Inpathy divisions. InSight is uniquely positioned to offer scalable telepsychiatry services in settings across the continuum of care. InSight has a diverse team of psychiatry providers, a robust internal infrastructure and a history of adapting its programs to fit the needs of a variety of different settings and populations.  InSight has led the growth of the telepsychiatry industry and remains an industry thought leader and advocate.  To learn more about telepsychiatry and how it can benefit you or your organization, visit www.InSightTelepsychiatry.com.

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Cabinet Peaks Medical Center of Libby, Montana, has partnered with Array, a national telepsychiatry service provider organization, to bring telepsychiatry services to their emergency department.  This innovative new program will ensure individuals in Lincoln County in need of psychiatric treatment will have access to timely, quality care.

Libby, MT – Cabinet Peaks Medical Center, a 25-bed critical access hospital, and Array Behavioral Care are pleased to announce a new partnership to increase emergency psychiatric coverage so that individuals in crisis are able to get the care they need more quickly.

Telepsychiatry is the delivery of psychiatry through real-time videoconferencing. It is proven to be an effective form of care delivery and a convenient, cost-effective way to safely expand psychiatric support at a hospital without the challenge of staffing an in-person psychiatry provider.

Cabinet Peaks Medical Center Launches Telepsychiatry Program in Lincoln County, Montana

The program is designed to lessen wait times for psychiatric evaluations, admission, and treatment decisions. The partnership gives Cabinet Peaks Medical Center staff access to a team of remote psychiatrists who can do psychiatric evaluations and consultations through telehealth using video calls. Nurses and emergency department physicians can now connect patients with a remote telepsychiatry provider in as little as an hour.

All Array telepsychiatry clinicians are licensed in Montana and trained to provide care to Cabinet Peaks patients in the same way as all onsite providers. Cabinet Peaks’ partnership with Array will help transform care in the emergency department and increase efficiency so that all patients are able to receive the care they need.

Telepsychiatry Program Importance in Lincoln County, Montana

Mental health is a top concern in Montana, as many individuals in the state are living with mental health disorders.  In fact, Mental Health America ranks Montana 46 out of the 50 states and Washington D.C. for prevalence of mental health and substance use issues.[1]  And, at nearly double the national average, Montana has the highest suicide rate in the United States with more than 28 suicides per 100,000 people.

Further compounding the problem, there is a significant shortage of mental health professionals in the state, so many residents are not receiving the treatment they need.  In Lincoln County alone, the ratio of population to mental health providers is 510:1, compared to the state ratio of 360:1.[2]  This means that more than 85% of Montana’s population has inadequate access to psychiatry.[3]

“This telepsychiatry program will help us to better provide our patients with the mental health care they need and deserve,” stated Anita Ivankovig, Chief Operating Officer for Cabinet Peaks.  “Mavis Vaillancourt, local LCSW, LAC, LLC, who has been providing our mental health evaluations for some time has done a fantastic job for our community.   This program will be an addition to these services and the processes we already have in place.”

“Telepsychiatry gives communities unprecedented access to mental health care specialists. We are pleased to partner with Cabinet Peaks Medical Center to offer this service.  Telepsychiatry is a great solution, not only in Montana, but also in many other states across the nation where there is significant mental health need and a shortage of psychiatry providers” said Shawn Ball, Chief Operating Officer at Array.

 About Cabinet Peaks

Cabinet Peaks Medical Center is a 25 bed Critical Access Hospital which lies at the foot of the Cabinet Mountains and is 90 miles from the closest tertiary hospital.  The medical center is extremely progressive for its small size, dictated in part by its remote location.  CPMC offers a wide range of services including general surgery, obstetrics, a family medicine clinic, and a 24-7 physician staffed emergency room.  The rural hospital also offers an array of ancillary services including nutrition and diabetes education; sleep lab; cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation; chemotherapy and infusion; respiratory therapy; laboratory services; rehabilitative services which providers physical, speech, and occupational therapy; and a full scale imaging department including a state-of-the-art wide bore MRI and 64-slice CT scanner.  The mission of Cabinet Peaks Medical Center is “Committed to Quality, Compassionate Care”, and its vision is to meet the ever-changing needs of their community for health, healing, and comfort.  Learn more at www.cabinetpeaks.org.

About Array

Array Behavioral Care (formerly InSight + Regroup) is the leading and largest telepsychiatry service provider in the country with a mission to transform access to quality, timely behavioral health care. Array offers telepsychiatry solutions and services across the continuum of care from hospital to home with its OnDemand Care, Scheduled Care and AtHome Care divisions. For more than 20 years, Array has partnered with hundreds of hospitals and health systems, community healthcare organizations and payers of all sizes to expand access to care and improve outcomes for underserved individuals, facilities and communities. As an industry pioneer and established thought leader, Array has helped shape the field, define the standard of care and advocate for improved telepsychiatry-friendly regulations. To learn more, visit www.arraybc.com.

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[2] (2019). Countyhealthrankings.org. Retrieved 2 August 2019, from https://www.countyhealthrankings.org/app/montana/2019/rankings/lincoln/county/factors/overall/snapshot

[3] Mental Health Care Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs). (2019). The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Retrieved 2 August 2019, from https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/mental-health-care-health-professional-shortage-areas-hpsas/?currentTimeframe=0&sortModel=%7B%22colId%22:%22Location%22,%22sort%22:%22asc%22%7D

Boston, MA – Geoffrey Boyce, Chief Executive Officer of InSight Telepsychiatry, will be speaking at the 11^th Annual mHealth and Telehealth World Summit put on by World Congress on Thursday, August 1. He will be co-presenting alongside Krysti Vo, MD, the Medical Director of Telehealth, Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Services of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Attendees include c-suite, VPs and directors of telehealth/telemedicine, virtual care, digital health, innovation, medical informatics and connected health organizations.

Boyce and Vo will be speaking about building and maintaining a telebehavioral health program. Learning objectives include:

• Examine strategies for reconciling reimbursement disparities between telebehavioral health and other telehealth and in-person services
• Address privacy and regulatory roadblocks in order to coordinate care throughout the system
• Establish a well-aligned behavioral health provider network to ensure consistent availability for services

World Congress offers innovative research and advisory services to advance the health care and pharma industries. Their educational events allow leaders from health care, legal and life sciences sectors to exchange ideas, discuss market trends and explore solutions to business challenges. “Presenting at this event allows us to discuss telepsychiatry as a key advancement and innovation in the health care space that can address solutions to challenges,” says Boyce.

The presentation will take place at 9:30 AM at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts.

About InSight Telepsychiatry

InSight is the leading national telepsychiatry service provider organization with a mission to increase access to quality behavioral health care through innovative applications of technology.  InSight has over two decades of telepsychiatry experience and serves hundreds of organizations across the country with its on-demand, scheduled services and Inpathy divisions. InSight is uniquely positioned to offer scalable telepsychiatry services in settings across the continuum of care. InSight has a diverse team of psychiatry providers, a robust internal infrastructure and a history of adapting its programs to fit the needs of a variety of different settings and populations.  InSight has led the growth of the telepsychiatry industry and remains an industry thought leader and advocate.

Orwigsburg, PA – Access Services has expanded its telepsychiatry program to include Orwigsburg, Pennsylvania. Access Services currently utilizes telepsychiatry in a wide variety of settings including outpatient and mobile crisis. When they started offering services in Fort Washington, they realized that rural Orwigsburg did not have access to psychiatric prescribers. This telepsychiatry program expansion is launched with longtime partner Array Behavioral Care, a national telepsychiatry service provider organization.

Telepsychiatry is a delivery of psychiatry through real time videoconferencing. It is proven to be an effective form of care delivery and a convenient, cost-effective way to safely expand psychiatric support without the challenge of staffing an in-person psychiatry provider.

Mental Health in Pennsylvania

Mental health is a top concern in Pennsylvania. There is a statewide average of 179 providers per 100,000 in population, which is below the national average of 214 to 100,000.[1] This comes out to one mental health provider per 600 individuals.[2] Of the approximately 12.9 million people living in Pennsylvania, 4% of adults live with a serious mental illness such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and major depression with many more living with any mental illness such as depression or anxiety.[3] Only 35% of the state need for mental health services is met.[4]

In Schuylkill County, where Orwigsburg is located, there is one provider per 1610 individuals.[5] With telepsychiatry, Access Services is bringing ten hours of psychiatric services per week from a provider certified in both adult and child and adolescent psychiatry to the community. Access Services continues to transform the communities in which they operate by expanding telepsychiatry services and using innovative programs. In addition to offering services in outpatient settings, they utilize telepsychiatry in their mobile crisis program. This allows them to bring psychiatric services to individuals experiencing a crisis without them having to leave their home or other location.

“Telepsychiatry gives communities unprecedented access to behavioral health care specialists. We are pleased that Access Services has chosen to expand their telepsychiatry program to reach even more people throughout Eastern Pennsylvania.  Telepsychiatry is a great solution, not only in Pennsylvania, but also in many other states across the nation where there is significant mental health need and a shortage of psychiatry providers” said Shawn Ball, Chief Operating Officer at Array.

About Access Services

Access Services has been empowering individuals and their families in Eastern Pennsylvania through community-based, innovative special needs and disability services since 1976. It is their mission to provide those in need with companionship, resources and opportunities to grow as part of a community in their Eastern Pennsylvania locations in Delaware, Chester, Montgomery, Bucks, Lehigh, Northampton, Schuylkill, Berks, Monroe and Carbon Counties. Access Services has demonstrated consistent growth throughout our forty-year history and are committed to providing innovative services to children and adults living with developmental, behavioral and mental health challenges.

About Array

Array Behavioral Care (formerly InSight + Regroup) is the leading and largest telepsychiatry service provider in the country with a mission to transform access to quality, timely behavioral health care. Array offers telepsychiatry solutions and services across the continuum of care from hospital to home with its OnDemand Care, Scheduled Care and AtHome Care divisions. For more than 20 years, Array has partnered with hundreds of hospitals and health systems, community healthcare organizations and payers of all sizes to expand access to care and improve outcomes for underserved individuals, facilities and communities. As an industry pioneer and established thought leader, Array has helped shape the field, define the standard of care and advocate for improved telepsychiatry-friendly regulations. To learn more, visit www.arraybc.com.

[1] Pennsylvania Population Health Dashboard. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.haponline.org/Initiatives/Population-Health/Pennsylvania-Population-Health-Dashboard
[2] Pennsylvania Rankings. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.countyhealthrankings.org/app/pennsylvania/2017/rankings/schuylkill/county/outcomes/overall/snapshot
[3] Mental Health Resources in Pennsylvania. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.rtor.org/directory/mental-health-pennsylvania/
[4] Mental Health Professional Shortage Areas (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/mental-health-care-health-professional-shortage-areas-hpsas/?currentTimeframe=0&sortModel=%7B%22colId%22:%22Location%22,%22sort%22:%22asc%22%7D
[5] Pennsylvania Rankings. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.countyhealthrankings.org/app/pennsylvania/2017/rankings/schuylkill/county/outcomes/overall/snapshot

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Regroup named fastest growing healthcare company in the midwest

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