Behavioral health providers know that contactless patient monitoring saves lives. Now they have data showing that it saves money, too. New research from the UK-based York Health Economics Consortium (YHEC) reveals that a medium-sized (300-bed) behavioral health care provider using Oxevision contactless patient monitoring for one year sees a total net savings of $3.2 million, […]
Too few people are getting the health care they need. This is especially true of behavioral health care, where one in five adults suffer from mental health conditions. Now one behavioral health CEO says he’s had enough. “There’s a growing consensus around the fact that the system is broken: it’s not meeting the needs of […]
AI is everywhere you turn, yet many behavioral health care providers are still unsure of how to successfully implement it. Even fewer people recognize the unique position their IT leaders are in when it comes to evaluating an AI solution. If your behavioral health organization is planning to hop on the AI train, you need […]
This article is sponsored by Oxehealth. In this Voices interview, Behavioral Health Business sits down with Todd Haedrich, the new Chief Executive Officer of Oxehealth, to discuss how the company’s contactless patient monitoring technology is bringing behavioral health care into the 21st century. Haedrich also shares the three major datapoints demonstrating the effectiveness of Oxehealth’s […]
Burnout in behavioral health is nothing new. But today’s behavioral health organizations are facing a perfect storm of factors: a record rise in demand for services, jam-packed provider schedules, mountains of paperwork, the squeeze of staffing shortages and the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. All of that has thrown the burnout train into hyperdrive. […]
Behavioral health staff members have a lot on their plate. The additional strain of documentation time should not be one of them. Fortunately, innovative technology like Eleos can make evidence-based behavioral care a reality, allowing clinicians, providers and networks to measurably and comparatively track treatment and progress. In this interview with Behavioral Health Business, Eleos founder […]
Facing a growing number of patients with complex needs, SummitStone Health Partners needed to find innovative ways to balance patient care with staff efficiency. The northern Colorado provider of behavioral health services was preparing to move its acute care facility into a building six times its then size, with a highly acute patient population. “We […]
The patients who discharge coordinator Diane Williams sees coming to Genesis Detox in Brooklyn, New York, face complex health conditions that sometimes have relatively straight-forward solutions. People arrive with complex and chronic health care needs, often intertwined with critical daily living needs such as a lack of access to food, a place to sleep at […]
Clinical staff are the beating heart of every behavioral health organization. But the cards are stacked against them. “Staff have famously always been working hard to find ways to improve care, to make sure things are always getting better,” Professor Dean Fathers, ex-chair of the NHS Behavioral Health Provider and a Nottingham University Business School, […]
When Tracey Wrench was in the behavioral health trenches, what kept her up at night were patient outcomes and their connection to staffing challenges. But what kept her patients and staff up at night was something else. Acuity. “There are real challenges in terms of the complexity of patients, their presentations, the pressure on behavioral […]