InSight Executive Director Receives 2017 Industry Leader Award
MARLTON, NJ (PRWEB) April 23, 2017 -- Geoffrey Boyce, Executive Director of InSight Telepsychiatry, is the recipient of the American Telemedicine Association’s 2017 Industry Leader Award.
The Industry Leader Award is presented each year to an individual or company that has made significant contributions to the advancement of telemedicine a federal, state and international level.
“Geoffrey has worked extensively in the promotion of telemedicine in a number of arenas,” says Les Paschall, CEO of InSight’s sister company, CFG Health Network. “This award recognizes his many accomplishments and tireless work to champion telemedicine and transform access to health care.”
The American Telemedicine Association (ATA) is the largest telehealth-focused organization. The non-profit organization is the leading telehealth association helping to transform healthcare by improving the quality, equity and affordability of healthcare throughout the world.
InSight Telepsychiatry is the leading national telepsychiatry organization with a mission to increase access to quality behavioral health care through innovative applications of technology. InSight has been practicing telepsychiatry for the past 18 years and runs telepsychiatry programs in settings than span the continuum of care across 27 states.
As executive director of InSight, Boyce has been active in telemedicine advocacy, education and reform initiatives. At a federal level, Boyce is an active leader in advocating for telemedicine-friendly changes to the Ryan Haight Act. He’s met with the DEA about the issue, spoke on the issue at several events and helped lead an ATA committee that produced comments on the Act that would make it telemedicine-friendly.
At the state level, Boyce played a crucial role in drafting a proposed telemedicine bill in New Jersey, which introduced significant regulations for the efficient delivery of health care services through telemedicine. He was among experts to testify before the New Jersey state Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee on the current and potential applications of telemedicine services and has continued to be a resource to the policy makers throughout the process.
Boyce also played a key role in advocating for New Jersey’s change in commitment laws to allow for electronic signatures in 2012. The revision represented significant improvement to the logistical challenges faced when screening and placing individuals appropriately, particularly in the delivery of the psychiatrist’s screen certificate.
Boyce worked with the Delaware Telehealth Coalition and the Delaware Medical Society to draft legislation making telemedicine more accessible through Delaware’s House Bill 69. He also helped design several innovative telemedicine partnerships within the state, including a 2014 pilot with the DSCYF to bring child and adolescent psychiatry to southern Delaware.
Through his work at InSight, Boyce has developed and implemented a number of innovative telepsychiatry and telebehavioral health programs for hospitals, health systems, outpatient health facilities and various other healthcare organizations. He launched the Adult Mobile Crisis Program and Children’s Crisis Psychiatry Program, allowing trained crisis support specialists to bring laptops equipped to connect a telepsychiatrist to the homes of callers experiencing psychiatric crisis in Pennsylvania. He launched the first ACT program to utilize telepsychiatry in Delaware. He also played a key role in the design of Inpathy, one of the nation’s first direct-to-consumer telebehavioral health platforms, and is currently working to expand into new areas through partnerships with health plans and insurance companies.
Boyce is an active public speaker on telehealth through presentations, webinars and events. Boyce has spoken on the topic of telemedicine at over 25 events in the past 5 years including presentations on the topic of Telepsychiatry to the American Telemedicine Association, the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, the National Association of Rural Health Associations, The Center for Telehealth and e-Law and many others.
Boyce also serves on the board of the Mid-Atlantic Telehealth Resource Center.
“I’m humbled by this honor. I’ve been involved with ATA for close to ten years and seen the organization and the telemedicine industry come into its own," says Boyce. "We are no longer spending time convincing people that telemedicine isn’t voodoo and are now seeing real change. Telehealth is at that tipping point."
Boyce will be presented with his award during the Industry Council Meeting at the 2017 International American Telemedicine Association Conference in Orlando, FL on Sunday, April 23.
Olivia Boyce, InSight Telepsychiatry, http://www.insighttelepsychiatry.com/, +1 770.713.4161, [email protected]
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