Optimizing Telehealth
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Optimizing Telehealth is actually a webcast that is made available for CME and CE credit hours as a webinar with a live audience through the Telebehavioral Health Institute. The video and audio tracks are edited and re-formatted to video-stream through Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube. That video stream is further edited into three audio podcasts to be disseminated as segments through the seven podcast stations linked below.
If you think that is involved, there’s more. The primary focus of Optimizing Telehealth is the 2017 competency framework published by the Coalition for Technology in Behavioral Science (CTiBS). For your very own copy, download the Interprofessional Framework for Telebehavioral Health Competencies – for free (flip to Table 1 for the competencies). You can thank many early telehealth industry leaders for this work, including the Host of Optimizing Telehealth, Dr. Marlene Maheu – a pioneer in the telehealth world since 1994. She is known as the God-Mother of Telehealth because her life’s work has been training clinicians in telehealth legal and ethical telehealth compliance worldwide. She and TBHI fund the Optimizing Telehealth program
Episode
Telehealth:
7 Effective Strategies for Managing Zoom Fatigue Symptoms.
Discover practical strategies that you can use to lessen the stresses of using daily videoconferencing. Easy and practical tips and strategies are provided by two seasoned teleprofessionals who will share the secrets they’ve learned to not only tolerate their video interactions but actually enjoy them.
Season 1, Episode 1 | 56min
Recent Episodes
Episode 1: 7 Effective Strategies for Managing Zoom Fatigue Symptoms (Main)
Episode 1: 7 Effective Strategies for Managing Zoom Fatigue Symptoms (International)
Episode 1: 7 Effective Strategies for Managing Zoom Fatigue Symptoms (Tech Talk)
Upcoming Episodes
Strengthening the Telehealth Therapeutic Relationship
7 Tips for Telehealth Screening
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Meet Your Host and Co-Hosts

Marlene M Maheu, PhD
For almost thirty years, Dr. Maheu’s focus has been on telehealth legal and ethical risk management & compliance. She has served on a dozen professional association committees, task forces and work groups related to advancing telebehavioral health as well as establishing standards and guidelines for telebehavioral health. She has written 40+ of peer-reviewed telehealth book chapters and journal articles and is the lead author of five telehealth textbooks.
She enjoys giving telehealth keynotes, training, consulting and helping organizations meet their staffing needs.

Shawna Wright, PhD
Dr. Shawna Wright is the Associate Director of KU’s Center for Telemedicine & Telehealth. She is a licensed psychologist who established an independent telepsychology practice in 2011. Dr. Wright has expertise with treating rural and underserved populations, and regularly advocates for telehealth expansion to increase behavioral health access and equity in her home state of Kansas. She serves on several statewide committees as a telehealth expert.
Dr. Wright enjoys telehealth training and consultation with a wide variety of professional groups.

Allison Crawford, MD
Allison Crawford is a psychiatrist and the Associate Chief of Virtual Mental Health and Outreach at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, and Associate Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry, and Dalla Lana School of Public Health, at the University of Toronto. She is the Chief Medical Officer of the Canada Suicide Prevention Service; and a Founder and Co-Chair of ECHO Ontario (www.echoontario.ca), an award-winning, virtual community of practice.
Her research focuses on access, quality, and equity in virtual care.