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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, […]
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Before they were known as Aliya Health, Royal Life Centers set out to provide prospective patients with a best-in-class digital experience while streamlining much of the manual workflow associated with their admissions teams. For prospective patients or family members visiting their website for treatment options, the goal was to quickly and effectively provide the necessary […]
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The Behavioral Health System is Broken: Views From a BH Executive
By Jack Silverstein| August 26, 2024Too 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 […]
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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 […]
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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. […]
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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 […]
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How an Integrated Post-Acute Care Program Can Drive Better Outcomes in 2024
By Jack Silverstein| December 21, 2023The 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 […]
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How Remote Patient Monitoring Technology Can Support Your Whole Organization
By Jack Silverstein| December 19, 2023Clinical 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, […]
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Inside the Technology Driving High Reliability and Staff Productivity
By Jack Silverstein| October 31, 2023When 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 […]
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Sleep Matters: Inside the Connection between Sleep and Mental Health
By Jack Silverstein| September 26, 2023Behavioral health patients need their sleep. They also need to be checked on while they sleep to ensure their safety. This dichotomy is at the heart of the challenge that behavioral health providers face in their Q15s, or fifteen-minute patient safety checks, as these common psychiatric hospital practices can at times be counterproductive to patient […]