The impact of telemedicine on primary mental health care in Canada

Telemedicine has become widely used in today’s Canadian health care system. The area of mental health has been known to adopt telemedicine strategies in order to address some of the issues currently facing the mental health care system in Canada, such as psychiatrist shortages or lack of services available in rural areas. This paper reports on the effectiveness that telemedicine has had on the mental health care system in Canada, based on a …