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.
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.
Oakbrook Terrace, IL – [January 2, 2020] – Streamline Healthcare Solutions (Streamline) and The Nord Center of Lorain, OH, have recently formalized a partnership to supply the agency’s next EHR platform. Nord valued a multi-faceted, flexible application to meet their many levels of care including, outpatient, inpatient crisis stabilization unit, 24/7 crisis hotline, and mobile teams. SmartCare will also provide the ability to provide direct primary care services, if so desired in the future.
There’s never been a more dynamic and innovative time in the health and wellness industry, leading to the best treatment for clients. Many updates and adaptations have replaced archaic systems and processes, and created streamlined, efficient approaches that save time and cost. Providers are able to better serve their clients, and clients receive more personalized care and understanding. While endless changes have occurred in the last few years, we anticipate even greater new trends in 2020. From regulation changes to enhanced data access, exciting changes are explored in our look at the year ahead.
Oakbrook Terrace, IL – [December 20, 2019] SalusCare, a not-for-profit community behavioral healthcare provider, and Streamline Healthcare Solutions (Streamline) have partnered to move the Southwest Florida healthcare agency from its current legacy system to one integrated electronic health record platform.
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 … Read more
Today’s technological advances are not only increasing the mental healthcare system’s overall efficiency, but are leading to better internal organizational development. As state requirements become more refined, the change to online record use is serving to revolutionize the data holding process and information sharing. The same technology is also offering parallel benefits within participating organization’s cultures and staff’s performances. To better understand the positive impact that technological changes make, we’ve explored how the data collected for your state’s requirements transform into benefits for your internal organization’s needs.
Oakbrook Terrace, IL – [December 11, 2019] — Streamline Healthcare Solutions is proud to announce that the company’s user base, made up of a variety of health and human services professionals, has officially reached a milestone of 40,000 individual users across 26 states. New sales at Streamline have continually improved year over year. Streamline specifically works with multifaceted organizations that provide services at all levels of care, and contracting with outside providers to perform services. Streamline has been delivering web-based software for healthcare organizations to provide and coordinate all service delivery processes for over 15 years.
Oakbrook Terrace, IL – [November 20, 2019] – Streamline Healthcare Solutions announced today they can successfully transmit both 837 claims and 270/271 eligibility inquiries through the SmartCare EHR platform for Indiana Medicaid. INXIX, Indiana State’s preferred vendor who completed the set up and testing process for Indiana Medicaid, required Streamline to complete several test runs for each client organizations business process. Commercial clearinghouses and payors are required to go through set up and testing processes as well. Streamline’s first Indiana client, Porter-Starke Services, was tested based on multiple scenarios of checking for eligibility of which all have been approved via INXIX.