关键词：临床护理；医药；心理健康
摘 要：This chapter is divided into 5 main sections. The first part is an introduction to the process of patient consultations, and how the process of these consultations can be redesigned to make it work more effectively with a range of technologies and devices. We provide some guidelines for providers to enable them to focus their direct services on more important tasks than routine work, which can often be done using a range of technologies. The second part reviews a number of technologies that are changing the way we communicate whether in our daily lives or in our healthcare practices, particularly smartphones, tablets and a range of medical devices intended for use at home. The third part is designed to focus on synchronous or real-time Telepsychiatry, which encompasses live and interactive communication between the patient and the provider for diagnosis, analysis, and data collection. The fourth part reviews Asynchronous or Store & Forward Telepsychiatry, a clinical process that we have pioneered and which we believe will become very common in future. Asynchronous medicine is the transmission of medical information from the patient to the provider, or vice versa, over a distance, with a review of the information later on. The information is literally "stored and forwarded" and viewed asynchronously. This is similar to sending a lab test result or an x-ray image to the doctor who then reviews the results whenever they have time available to provide suggestions or treatment. The final section will focus on the future, and in particular on the use of virtual reality in mental health.