Key Components for Intensive Outpatient Program Retention
Here are some practical strategies to build programs that address these challenges and ultimately achieve real, lasting improvement and patient success.
Here are some practical strategies to build programs that address these challenges and ultimately achieve real, lasting improvement and patient success.
Addressing the burnout demands integrated systems that lighten administrative burdens rather than compound them.
The shortfalls that accompany this technology gap touch everything from continuity of care and outcomes to the patient experience.
No single provider should be expected to do everything, and no patient should have to navigate a fragmented system alone. A team-based model makes care more accessible, more effective, and more supportive for both patients and the providers who care for them.
Malingering, deliberately feigning or exaggerating symptoms appears to be rising. This shift brings with it a tangled web of clinical, operational, and ethical challenges that affect not only providers but also the patients most in need of timely, effective care.
Our mental health system is not designed to treat people in crisis. Instead of being administered right away and effectively, it shoves patients through a maze of barriers. If we are serious about saving lives, then we must reconsider how mental health care is administered.
Alan Murray on improving access for medical transportation.
We need to embrace a more holistic, integrated approach to mental healthcare: one that combines the best of human expertise with rapid innovations of technology, all while being mindful of the real-world challenges faced by marginalized and underserved communities.
For too long, the behavioral health industry has lacked the accountability mechanisms required to deliver on the high quality care that patients deserve. Provider organizations are proving day in, day out that when strong accountability becomes the standard, patients benefit, and the system as a whole grows stronger.
LLMs, with their remarkable conversational abilities, are uniquely positioned to help solve this crisis. But as with the dotcom boom before it, the surge of AI 'therapists' has created a turbulent landscape where separating legitimate innovation from dangerous shortcuts isn't straightforward.
When AI is directly integrated into the EHR it not only improves efficiency but also ensures that patient data remains secure within the same trusted system.
More than 2,000 mental health clinicians who work at Kaiser Permanente went on strike on Monday. The strike comes as a result of continued complaints about mental health care access at the health system — workers are saying patients must wait four to 11 weeks for a follow-up appointment. Through a new page posted on its website, Kaiser denies the union's claims.
The Series B funding round was led by DFJ Growth. Osmind helps the medical community administer treatments, and track and study the effectiveness of those treatments for 14 million U.S. patients living with moderate and serious mental illness, according to the company.
To supplement the counseling services Magellan Federal offers to service members and their spouses, NeuroFlow will provide access to resources and support through its app.
The mental health tech company, which supports collaboration between therapists to improve outcomes and access, is expanding beyond New York to New Jersey and Connecticut. Its ultimate aim is to provide behavioral health services across the country.
The financial terms of the three-year deal were not disclosed. Beginning in Q3, NeuroFlow will be available to new and existing clients that have fully insured group long-term disability policies through Aflac with more than 1,000 covered lives, according to the agreement.