Behavioral Health Management articles from January 1996

Behavioral Health Management archives from January 1996

The information revolution hits behavioral care.(Editorial)
January 1, 1996... Rapid changes in technology are causing sweeping change throughout every walk of life in the United States--and the behavioral health field is certainly no exception. In the past, the field's need for information management was limited. Most...

Primary care physicians as the new federal "darlings."
January 1, 1996... An alcoholic launched the Federal government into the business of caring for alcohol abuse. A large amount of Federal policy and guidance on the care of alcohol-related problems could be explained by that historical accident--until now. Recent...

Information technology: changing the equation for entrepreneurial innovation.(Cover Story)
January 1, 1996... The sheer volume of research directly relevant to behavioral health, and the health care field in general, is overwhelming. As this volume increases, the disparity between what is known and what is actually applied in specific health care...

Welcome to the Internet.(Cover Story)
January 1, 1996... During the last three years, the Internet has exploded. Thousands of companies are scrambling to get on that part of the Internet called the World Wide Web. They are building Web sites -- locations where people can view electronic information...

Interactive video in treatment and training.(Cover Story)
January 1, 1996... The patient steps into a small room, sits down at a 486 PC, and logs onto the system with her special code. Within seconds she is engrossed in a dramatized scene in which "Joan," a middle-class working woman, is seated at her kitchen table...

Computer mapping comes to behavioral health care.(Cover Story)
January 1, 1996... Many readers have by now, no doubt, heard of computer mapping and understand its basic concept--namely, by assigning colors to specific data sets, one can create a "picture" of how those data sets compare and relate to one another. The concept...

Collaborating on the Internet. (includes related information)(Cover Story)
January 1, 1996... Members of the helping professions certainly know better than anyone the power of well-run groups for generating insights, providing support, healing, and for doing many kinds of collaborative work. That is old news. Now, as we enter the digital...

Behavioral Health, Inc.: anatomy of an information system purchase.
January 1, 1996... In 1992, the Managed Care division of Behavioral Health Inc. managed the mental health benefits for over 60,000 at-risk beneficiaries and over 90,000 ASO beneficiaries. Services were delivered through contracted provider networks in two states....

Improving alcoholism treatment: an overview.
January 1, 1996... During the past ten years, the alcoholism treatment field has grown dramatically. Today for example, there are more than ten self-help programs available and dozens of additional techniques proven to enhance recovery. As a result, counselors now...