The challenges of telemental health, and how they can be improved

Of all the medical specialties impacted by telemedicine during the course of the pandemic, perhaps the one with the most wholesale and immediately lasting effects is behavioral and mental health.

Mental health appointments do not typically involve any collection of vitals or specimens, nor do they absolutely require a face-to-face meeting (though therapists can observe physical cues of the whole body in person). Just talking, via video or…