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
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