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The science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke wrote “The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible…and any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Mr. Clarke’s laws of prediction capture the romance of e-mental health. More concretely, telemedicine (direct patient care) and telehealth (medical records, preventive medicine training) both describe the use of medical information exchanged from one site to another via electronic communications to improve patients’ health status, generally via the Internet or telephony.

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Fishkind, A.B., Cuyler, R.N., Shiekh, M.A., Snodgress, M. (2012). Telepsychiatry and e-Mental Health. In: McQuistion, H., Sowers, W., Ranz, J., Feldman, J. (eds) Handbook of Community Psychiatry. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3149-7_11

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