The three-year partnership will increase and improve the North Carolina Statewide Telepsychiatry Program at the university’s Center for Telepsychiatry and in six community-based primary care clinics in underserved parts of the state, according to a Feb. 14 news release from the United Health Foundation.
East Carolina and UnitedHealth Group intend to use the funds to:
- Add behavioral health providers at community-based pediatric care centers and facilitate connections among them, primary care providers and psychiatrists via telepsychiatry.
- Create an artificial intelligence-driven platform for collaboration between providers.
- Develop a video game that provides mental health education and peer-to-peer support.
- Offer training opportunities for the university’s psychiatric residents, child psychiatry fellows and other behavioral healthcare students.
- Host a telehealth summit to review the project’s successes.
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