HomePsych is a secure online portal enabling fee-for-service mental health services where patients self-schedule online, pay by credit card and meet the doctor for telepsychiatry visits by web cam. In addition to enabling a "virtual clinic", HomePsych improves quality of care through innovations in information management. When the patient schedules, an online pre-visit questionnaire is administered. Answers are formatted to present information to the psychiatrist visually and auto-populate much of the doctor's paperwork. The system is now operational, and is being beta tested with psychiatrists and patients in Missouri and Pennslyvania. See homepsych.tv for a video demo.

The data visualization dashboard is in development. A Flash prototype of the dashboard (as seen by the doctor) can be viewed at 1psych.com. An improved dashboard prototype will be available soon. More information about a specific dashboard component, Medication IconoGraphs, is displayed at iconichealth.com.

Ideally for this demonstration, a mock patient and I would present the system on 2 screens, 2 podiums, 2 web cams. This would show the doctor and patient interfaces simultaneously, demonstrating how the virtual clinic operates from both sides.

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Jason Cafer is a psychiatrist, one year out of residency, practicing in Columbia Missouri. He is building a private practice with no office staff other than a greeter. Patients self-schedule and pre-pay by credit card for psychiatric services. He says: for the first appointment, I require a face-to-face visit in my Columbia office. For follow-ups, I make myself available for online telepsychiatry by webcam, including weekends and evenings when necessary.

Jason founded Iconic Health LLC with 2 other MD psychiatrists and a PhD psychologist. He has authored five pending patents for innovations in medical information technology and data visualization which will be layered into HomePsych, the initial online application.