Telemedicine use in addiction treatment: facilitators and barriers

Submitted by: 06/09/2015 by Maureen Fitzgerald


A NIATx project conducted from February 2013 to June 2014 investigated the adoption of telemedicine services among purchasers of addiction treatment in five states and one county. The project assessed purchasers’ interest in and perceived facilitators and barriers to implementing telephone-based care, web-based screening, web-based treatment, videoconferencing, smartphone mobile applications apps and virtual worlds. “Trends in telemedicine treatment in addiction treatment,” recently published in Addiction Science & Clinical Practice

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