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
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
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
Loews Chicago O’Hare 5300 N. River Road, Rosemont, IL 60018 Streamline Healthcare Solutions hosts an annual client conference, SC2, and the planning is underway for another successful event. Here are some details to get you excited and prepare you for what’s to come. We’re back at Loews Hotel O’Hare, September 27-29, 2021. The theme of … 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.
Oakbrook Terrace, IL – [February 17, 2020] Archways, a not-for-profit community behavioral healthcare provider, and Streamline Healthcare Solutions (Streamline) have partnered to move the South Florida healthcare agency from its current legacy system to one integrated electronic health record platform.
If your behavioral health agency is using an electronic health record (EHR) system to measure outcomes and report data, you know that there are numerous reporting techniques.
Payers like Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurers use these reporting techniques to measure client outcomes. This allows the payer either to provide bonus payments under incentive programs, or withhold payments for undesirable outcomes. In this way, healthcare systems are migrating from fee-for-service (FFS) to value-based payment (VBP) models.
Different reimbursement programs require different types of reporting. Unfortunately, the “alphabet soup” of acronyms for different reporting methods can be confusing and overwhelming. Let’s decipher some of these reporting types.
The healthcare industry has experienced dynamic changes in 2019, resulting in many advances for running a practice or facility with efficiency and enhanced tools for communication. From changes in legislation to key trends, Streamline Healthcare Solutions (Streamline) has explored the major breakthroughs and movements to offer a comprehensive look at the year in review. Legislation … Read more