Description of Proposed Interventions/Solutions

First, Providers should be granted licensure to provide telehealth across the nation irrespective of their patients’ location, so as to provide increased patients’ opportunity to different providers of choice, encourage patient-provider relationship, and consequently increase compliance. Secondly, because psychiatric patients are mostly paranoid, and experience fear to make change, which inadvertently create constrains in their treatments, therefore, providing adequate patients’ information, and maintaining patients’ privacy and confidentiality would increase confidence, and reduce paranoia. Thirdly, to support patients’ and providers’ awareness of telehealth, psychiatric providers and nurses must be well trained on how to efficiently provide telehealth care to mental health population; at the same time, educate patients and family members, on benefits of telehealth and its functionalities to aid acceptance of technology. Lastly, all individuals diagnosed with mental illness should be provided free personal encrypted smart phones via a government certified information technology vendor, to ensure patients’ privacy and confidentiality. And, in addition, the providers’ access portal should allow patients to leave messages at any given time for easy access and quick providers’ response to crisis.