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 …
Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner Jobs
Psychiatric nurse practitioner jobs are fairly numerous in California, but we think we may have a unique opportunity for the right applicant. This has been a very busy fall at Gateway, we are in the midst of significant expansion in the practice with the result that we are looking to hire another psychiatric and mental health nurse practioner for our …
Bipolar Education Program
Doctors often do a poor job of educating their patients about their health problems. That is particularly troubling when you are talking about a condition as complicated as bipolar. We have been working on an educational program for this site based on the Barcelona psycho-education program for bipolar, to be called Bipolar 101. The Barcelona program has clearly been shown, …
Virtru
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 …
Active Treatment
Why are we so insistent that people in “active treatment” at Gateway Psychiatric, have to always have a future appointment, and must discuss with us the issue of visit frequency? Why don’t we let them come in when they feel the need? Today we were meeting with someone who was asking all of those questions and who also, in many …
Data Security at Gateway Psychiatric Services
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 …