MISSION The mission of the Agence d’évaluation des technologies et des modes d’intervention en santé (AETMIS) is to contribute to improving the Québec health-care system and to participate in the implementation of the Québec government’s scientifi c policy. [...] To accomplish this, the Agency advises and supports the Minister of Health and Social Services as well as the decision-makers in the health-care system, in matters concerning the assessment of health services and technologies. [...] Although the fi rst experiences for the proposed clinical guidelines and led date back to the 1950s, telepsychiatry really to the exclusion of certain clinical conditions began to develop in the 1990s with the and therapeutic interventions from the area implementation of a number of projects. [...] The Act also provides for the legal/ethical guidance proposed in this report conclusion of agreements between the parties help ensure that the quality of care delivered in concerned, but it says little about the kind of telepsychiatry is the same as that of face-to-face administrative control necessary for verifying consultations. [...] The useable portion is referred to as “bandwidth.” The larger the bandwidth, the higher the transfer rate.