New Staff

Peter Forster GPS Update, Website Update

I am pleased to welcome a young woman, Hershe Gesmundo to this site. She is going to be working with me on a number of administrative projects related to this site, and to the companion site – MoodSurfing.com. Hershe had this to say about herself – Hershe Gesmundo is a development practitioner who specializes in the areas of project management, …

Telepsychiatry – A Breakthrough at Gateway Psychiatric?

Peter Forster GPS Update

We have begun to implement a new platform for telepsychiatry at Gateway Psychiatric. We’ve signed up with Breakthrough mental health which provides a secure, HIPAA compliant, platform for online counseling and telepsychiatry. Telepsychiatry allows us to provide care for patients throughout California. For many people we will need to have only one in person meeting a year, and the rest can take place …

Institute for Psychiatric Services

Peter Forster General, GPS Update

The Institute for Psychiatric Services, the American Psychiatric Association’s smaller and more collegial educational program, is coming to San Francisco next week. The meeting will be in San Francisco’s Moscone Center from Thursday through Sunday and promises to be a not to miss educational and social program for clinicians with an interest in treating major depression, bipolar, and other serious mental illnesses. …

Virtru

Peter Forster GPS Update

I am writing to update you about the security systems that we have been implementing at Gateway Psychiatric to ensure the safety of your data. As you know, the safety of data stored on the net cannot be taken for granted. I was reminded of this when I got an email from WordPress saying that hackers had published the email …

Data Security at Gateway Psychiatric Services

Peter Forster GPS Update, Uncategorized, Website Update

We have been following the stories of data lost or stolen this past year with increasing concern about the safety of the internet. As a result we spent much of the summer hard at work upgrading the level of security at Gateway. This is important work, although not terribly rewarding. Some of these changes – We no longer rely on just user …