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Klinik, Diagnostik, Therapie und Rehabilitation Organ der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie http://www.oegpp.at Regularly listed in Current Contents / Clinical Practice and EMBASE/Excerpta Medica e-Ment@l He@lth Challenges for the Future 18/S2 Dustri-Verlag Dr. Karl Feistle http://www.dustri.de ISSN 0948-6259 Volume 18 Number S2 – 2004 Editorial Klinik, Diagnostik, Therapie und e-Mental Health: Challenges 57 Rehabilitation for the Future Organ der M. F. Cabrera Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie Reviews The Future of Telepsychiatry 59 in Europe P. McLaren S2 Telepsychiatry and e-Mental 64 04 Health: Electronic Telecom- munication in Psychiatry H. Sulzenbacher, A. H. Bullinger, T. Senn, E. Bekiaris, U. Meise Original Papers On the Integration of Telepsychia- 74 try Services in European Remote Areas: the ISLANDS Project Case Study M. F. Cabrera, M. T. Arredondo, M. Rodriguez, E. Bekiaris Services and Architecture for the 79 ISLANDS System: Toward a Modular Non-Conventional Tele- psychiatry System A. Amditis, Z. Lentziou, M. Panou, A. H. Bullinger, E. Bekiaris Towards the Development of Tools 89 for Remote Interventions M. Panou, E. Bekiaris, A. Amditis The ISLANDS Treatment Scenarios 93 and Service Batches A. H. Bullinger, T. Senn, E. Bekiaris, U. Meise, R. Mager, F. Müller-Spahn, H. Sulzenbacher Process Quality Analysis of Tele- 100 psychiatry: Contributions of Stati- stical Control Process and Critical Pathway Analysis Dustri-Verlag Dr. Karl Feistle http://www.dustri.de C. De Las Cuevas, J. Artiles I Reports Ethical Conduct within the 106 ISLANDS Project T. Senn, H. Sulzenbacher, U. Meise, K. Estoppey, R. Mager, F. Müller- Klinik, Diagnostik, Therapie und Spahn, A. H. Bullinger Rehabilitation Organ der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Potential Constraints and Obstacles 109 Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie relevant to the Introduction of e-Mental Health and Telepsychiatry U. Meise, H. Sulzenbacher, A. H. Bullinger S2 Some Considerations about the Con- 112 cept of Presence in Telepsychiatry C. De las Cuevas, J. L. González 04 de Rivera The Telemed Project (RACE-Pro- 116 ject R 1086): Lessions learned for Telepsychiatry from the first EU funded Telemedicine Project P. McLaren, A. Charles-Nicolas Perspectives of Communication 123 Technology in Psychiatry: The ISLANDS Project in Greece A. Politis, A. Pehlivanidis, A. Amdi- tis, Z. Lentziou, † M. Markidis, G. Trikkas, A. Rabavilas History of Telepsychiatry in the 127 Czech Republic P. Doubek, A. Kott, J. Raboch Telemedicine in French Guyana 131 T. Le Guen, N. Poirot, O. Tournebize, A. Guell Bookreview Telepsychiatry and e-Mental Health 111 R. Wootton, P. Yellowlees, P. 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