Verizon Teams Up With Behavioral Health Company to Offer Tele-Psychiatry Services

ValueOptions, an independent behavioral health care company, announced its partnership with Verizon Telehealth Collaboration Services July 9 to securely offer cost-effective tele-psychiatry to residents of Immokalee, Fla., according to a press release from ValueOptions.

Verizon’s high-definition video conferencing units will facilitate remote consultations between clinical specialists and those in need of services, ValueOptions said. These consultations will take place at the David Lawrence Center, a Collier County-based mental health center, the release said.

“The consumer won’t have to travel far from home to keep an appointment,” Pat Glynn, vice president of ValueOptions Florida operation, said. “This arrangement tosses aside the ...