Mar 6, 2014
Breakout Technology for Telepsychiatry & Telementalhealth

In order for mental health care to be truly accessible, mental health care needs to break out of the confines of the consulting room. It needs to be available in the community and even in people’s homes. It is startling to remind ourselves that before 1940 most doctor’s visits in America were provided in people’s homes!

Feb 17, 2014
Medication and the Changing Role of the Mental Health Clinician

Behavioral health practice has changed rapidly over the last several decades. Now 57 percent of patients receive medication only, i.e. without psychotherapy, for their mental health problems, while only 10.5 percent of patients with mental health problems receive psychotherapy only. The new normal in psychotherapy practice is the patient who is receiving psychotherapy in conjunction with medication.

Jan 16, 2014
New findings suggest female clinicians better able to engage patients in treatment

An analysis of our data show that women clinicians are much better at engaging new patients in treatment than are male clinicians. We define engagement as coming for follow up treatment after an initial intake. We wanted to focus on non-medical providers, so we looked at Diagnostic Evaluation without a medical component (90791) between January 1, 2013 and September 30, 2013. Our data came from 13 practices that had been using Carepaths for at least 6 months as of the first of 2013. We limited our sample to patients who were first entered into the Carepaths database in 2013 because we wanted to minimize the number of patients who may have had a prior episode of care with these providers. We considered a patient to have been engaged in treatment if they received any service other than the 90791 during between January 1, 2013 and December 31, 2013. Patients who did not receive another service before the end of 2013, were classified as not engaging in treatment.

Dec 12, 2013
Is Psychiatry becoming a concierge service? New Study show Psychiatrists less likely than other doctors to accept insurance.

A study published Wednesday in the journal JAMA Psychiatry found that:

EHR

Therapy

Mindfulness

LGBTQ

Addiction

Suicide

Trauma

Online Therapy

Depression

Anxiety

Insomnia

Drug and alcohol abuse

ADHD

Outcomes Monitoring

Breakout Technology for Telepsychiatry & Telementalhealth

Medication and the Changing Role of the Mental Health Clinician