Assess facilitators and barriers to interjurisdictional practice: Practice across borders using technology

Summary

Speaker Sherrie Williams of Global Partnership for Telehealth described how telemedicine/ electronic practice is changing the landscape of health and mental health care and how telehealth/ electronic practice maybe used in real world clinical situations. Dwight Hymans (ASWB) led an interactive discussion about how technology affects policy regulators, referring participants to the ASWB Model Regulatory Standards for Technology in Social Work Practice as a resource for developing language for regulating practice across jurisdictional lines via telehealth/electronic practice.