Mental Health Issues Rising Significantly Among Young Adults As part of 2022’s May Mental Health Awareness Month, organizations from MTV to the US government are sponsoring initiatives to promote awareness, education, and action related to mental health. For the second year, MTV is sponsoring Mental Health Action Day on May 19 as part of its … Read more
Worlds Imagined: Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month This week concludes Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month. Each March, the National Association of Councils on Developmental Disabilities (NACDD) and their partners work together to create a social media campaign that “highlights the many ways in which people with and without disabilities come together to form strong, diverse communities.” The … Read more
Health Insurance Providers Push for Integrating Physical and Behavioral Health AHIP, an association whose members include the nation’s largest health insurance providers, recently added its voice to the call for greater integration of physical and behavioral health with an Issue Brief titled: Integrating Behavioral Health and Primary Care. Integration Will ‘Reduce Stigmas and Disparities in … Read more
Is Your Behavioral Health Organization Ready for the New Era of Digital Care? Pre-pandemic, many behavioral health organizations were slow to embrace digital, or remote, care for a variety of reasons. The combination of limited in-person options and increased demand for remote services during COVID forced organizations to take the leap, but challenges remain. A … Read more
How Providers Are Adapting to the New Normal of Telehealth As telehealth evolves from a COVID-19 Pandemic workaround to a permanent fixture in both physical and behavioral health, provider organizations have shifted focus to making this care delivery method as effective as possible as a long-term solution. Telehealth use expanded dramatically during the height of … Read more
Streamline Healthcare Solutions, a leader in building innovative technology solutions for the behavioral health and human services market, successfully completed the most implementations of its SmartCare™ EHR in the company’s history in 2021. However, it was a challenge that Streamline had to do so in the remote and virtual world of COVID-19. Overcoming Challenges During … Read more
Key takeaways from Build Back Better Act: How Behavioral Healthcare providers can prepare for the billions earmarked for their industry. Last month, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the $1.75 Trillion Build Back Better Act, which includes a massive influx of money to overwhelmed and understaffed behavioral health organizations. This legislation now goes to the … Read more
One Key to Controlling Healthcare Costs: Improve Behavioral Health The relationship between behavioral health and overall healthcare spending A detailed study by Milliman, one of the leading actuarial firms in the world, demonstrates a strong relationship between individuals’ behavioral health issues and their overall health care costs, and at the same time notes that spending … Read more
Hybrid of Care in Healthcare and Telehealth What does “hybrid of care” mean? The term hybrid has come up often this past decade as the automobile industry shifted gears to focus on alternative ways to manufacture and power their cars. Caused by fossil fuel concerns and green energy legislation, Hybrid cars result from an industry … Read more
The Promise and Challenge of Telehealth in Behavioral Health and Human Services Telehealth, remote health, virtual care—however it is described, providing behavioral health and human services in both electronic and traditional ways is one of the biggest changes brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. COVID and the rise of Telehealth During the COVID-19 pandemic, the … Read more