MHMR Authority of Brazos Valley Chooses Streamline’s SmartCare EHR for Its Flexibility and Adaptability to Meet Their Healthcare Challenges of Today and of The Future

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Oakbrook Terrace, IL – [April 7, 2020] Streamline Healthcare Solutions (Streamline) and MHMR Authority of Brazos Valley in Bryan, Texas, have formalized a partnership to supply the agency’s next EHR platform. MHMR Authority of Brazos Valley provides Mental Health and IDD services. They chose SmartCare as their electronic health record (EHR) solution because it had the functionality they required to meet their needs today and in the future, including, but not limited to, outpatient, residential, prescribing and a mobile solution were key factors in their selecting SmartCare.  

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5 Free Webinars To Help Meet Your Organization’s Needs Now and Into the Future

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As the news surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic changes daily, it is important for us to continue to work together to remain safe and healthy. Streamline is following the social distancing protocols recommended by our local health officials and government to reduce the spread of the virus. We have stopped all travel, and our employees are working from home, if they can. We are also remaining fully operational so that our client partners can continue on the path of treatment for those they serve who are most in need. 

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How the Coronavirus Response Spending Bill Will Affect Telehealth

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President Donald Trump signed into law the “Coronavirus Preparedness and Response Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2020” on Friday, March 6, after it passed the U.S. Senate by a vote of 96-1. This bill provides $8.3 billion in emergency funding to help U.S. researchers and healthcare providers address the outbreak of COVID-19.

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Expand your reach with Telehealth

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Telehealth, also called telemedicine, is the practice of using technology to provide healthcare remotely. When used for behavioral health, such as psychiatric evaluations or talk therapy sessions, it may also be called telepsychiatry. 

Telehealth or telepsychiatry usually involves the direct interaction between a provider and a client, but the term may also be used for communications and consultations between providers.

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SmartCare EHR Chosen by Archways for Flexibility, Proficiency at Managing Florida State Reporting

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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. 

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State Reporting for Behavioral Health: Deciphering the Alphabet Soup

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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.

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