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How To Decide Which Mental Health Practice Software is Right for You

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How to Select the Best Mental Health Practice Software for Your Practice. Choosing mental health software for electronic health records (EHR) can be tricky. As of 2015, certain mental health practices (mostly psychiatrists’ offices) had to begin meaningfully using EHR to be eligible for incentive payments.

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Legislators and healthcare orgs rally in favor of bipartisan telehealth bill

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Department of Health and Human Services, said Bordenick, have allowed individuals suffering from COVID symptoms to get virtual treatment. But the waivers have fulfilled another important function: "It's allowed individuals to manage their non-COVID treatment," such as cancer treatment, mental health care and diabetes management.

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Ed Grogan, VP & CIO, Calvert Health System, Chapter 2

Health System CIO

So we have quite a few independent physicians, one very large practice, and a lot of small practices in the community using it. The Department of Mental Health for the state, the mental health clinic in the county, we’re also hosting for them. Back in 2010, we established a community health information exchange.

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Judy Faulkner talks lessons learned from Epic's COVID-19 response

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

It's not [going] back to where it used to be, and it never will. One of our mental health providers for pediatrics said to us that he thought he was going to lose a lot, not having the child right there. And so that's why we started interoperability years before meaningful use required it.

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Patrick Yount, CIO, Lincoln Community Hospital and Care Center, Chapter 2

Health System CIO

He’ll discuss his strategy in selecting a vendor, the “fantastic opportunity” Lincoln has to become a leader in behavioral health, the approach he took as the organization’s first CIO, and why, despite its faults, he’s still a champion of Meaningful Use. Behavioral health teleservices — “It’s very exciting”.