Healthcare Ecosystems Are the Future of Whole-Person Care “The healthcare ecosystems of the future, like other ecosystems, will be centered on the consumer, in this case the patient.” That’s one of the conclusions reached in a recent white paper by McKinsey &Co, and it encapsulates a major emphasis in Behavioral Health and Human Services: whole … Read more
EHR Software Determines Data-Driven Success in Behavioral Health and Human Services For the health care industry in general, and Behavioral Health and Human Services in particular, the term “data-driven” is more than a trendy buzzword. It’s a business necessity to survive going forward, and making full use of data depends upon the EHR system. Behavioral … Read more
ePrescribing Growth Driven by Win-Win of Greater Efficiency, Safety Since ePrescribing was introduced in the Medicare Modernization Act (MMA) in 2003, it has grown in momentum, thanks to its ability to improve both the efficiency and safety of prescribing practices. What is ePrescribing? Electronic Prescribing, or ePrescribing, enables providers to enter prescriptions into a computer … Read more
Good Processes Drive Success. A Good EHR Drives Good Processes At their best, well-designed processes can make work easier and organizations more efficient. At their worst, poorly designed processes can make even relatively simple tasks frustratingly difficult to accomplish and sink productivity. Behavioral Health and Human Services organizations are extremely process-driven, with a multitude of … Read more
Behavioral Health Organizations Can Reduce Clinician Burnout With the Right Clinical Documentation Tools Clinician burnout has become a serious problem, threatening the health of individual providers, compromising client outcomes, and limiting productivity. Burnout was on the rise before the COVID-19 pandemic, and it has only persisted since then. What is clinician burnout? Generally, burnout relates … Read more
CCBHCs can benefit from the features and functionalities offered by a comprehensive EHR platform The impressive growth in Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHCs) highlights the need for behavioral health and human services EHRs that can effectively integrate a variety of providers and services, capture and report on key metrics, and enable providing services remotely. … Read more
For behavioral health providers, offering telehealth services has never been easier. Federal health officials have relaxed many HIPAA rules to encourage providers to offer more telehealth services during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This is good news for behavioral health providers who have been wanting to launch telehealth services but are concerned about staying compliant with HIPAA rules. Here is what the policy changes, including increased HIPAA flexibility, mean for your practice.
Innovation in healthcare technology, from EHR software to videoconferencing software to patient monitoring devices, has contributed to significant growth in telehealth. More recently, both physical and behavioral health providers have offered telehealth to their clients to reduce in-person and prevent viral spread during the COVID-19 public health emergency. Because of this, the U.S. federal government has encouraged more providers to adopt and use telehealth appropriately.
However, many behavioral health providers had not yet implemented a telehealth program when the COVID-19 emergency began. Behavioral health organizations may be concerned about the financial or time costs of adding telehealth solutions and training staff. Providers may be concerned about whether telehealth solutions can adequately protect client privacy and data. Fortunately, there are many methods and resources for addressing these concerns.
When it’s time to consider a new EHR and other behavioral health solutions, many providers turn to resellers for their software, rather than purchasing directly from the vendor.
One growing trend in the business side of healthcare has been the combination of payer organizations and healthcare providers to create entities known as “payviders.” The idea of a payvider first originated in the 1990s. Some longstanding examples of payviders include California-based Kaiser Permanente or Pennsylvania-based Geisinger Health System. Other payviders have emerged in recent … Read more