MAKING TELEMEDICINE WORK : THE TRANSITION TO REMOTE TREATMENTS
MENTAL HEALTH CENTER OF DENVER
Dr Wes Williams , Chief Information Officer of the Mental Health Center of Denver , tells us how technology could make Denver the healthiest city in America
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Dr Wes Williams wants Denver to be the healthiest city in America . His role in this , as Chief Information Officer of the Mental Health Center of Denver , is to lead on technologies that play an instrumental part in supporting the city ’ s most vulnerable . But in the course of a wide-ranging interview , Williams also speaks enthusiastically about how innovation has benefited the people who work at the organisation .
MAKING TELEMEDICINE WORK : THE TRANSITION TO REMOTE TREATMENTS
In Colorado , the COVID-19 pandemic has not only taken a toll on people ’ s mental health ; it has also created unprecedented challenges for the clinics that provide them with care . Even for an organisation that prides itself on its innovative approaches , the transition from in-person therapies to telemedicine hasn ’ t been easy . Dr Williams admits that when the organisation was forced to bring all of its services online – which it managed to achieve in two days – putting the technology in place was
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