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Use of ICT in psychiatry can give:

• Improved and more equal access to timely outpatient psychiatry services
• Equal access to specialist evaluation
• Access to treatment according to best practice
• Improved capacity in primary care and more rational use of specialist services
• Shortening of patient trajectories
• Less travel costs
• Reduction of psychosocial strain for patients and their families due to less travelling and absence from school, respectively work
• Optimalized for stepped-care methods where patient and therapist frequently interact by use of videoconference.