Behavioral Health Management articles from January 1998

Behavioral Health Management archives from January 1998

Drugs on the job.(Washington Insights)
January 1, 1998... A national study of drug use within the US labor force released last November by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) offers good news for worksite behavioral health interventions, as well as the bad...

Computerization: first things first.
January 1, 1998... Computers... software... applied to health care: This conjures up all sorts of images and promises as you think about it. Efficiency, accuracy, dependability, more time for patient care. Indeed, there are individuals and companies...

Optimizing the Internet.
January 1, 1998... The use of Internet-based technology may hold opportunities for reducing managed behavioral health organization (MBHO) administrative costs and building a MBHO's market position as a technologically advanced organization. But this is...

Translating "computerspeak": you've heard all the buzz - but what do they really mean to your operation?
January 1, 1998... Think about a computerized information management system (IMS) that you own or would like to purchase: Is it fully integrated? Is it based on a client/server model? Does it use open systems architecture? Is the front end truly...

Cutting costs with electronic commerce.(interview with David Norton)(Interview)
January 1, 1998... What's "electronic commerce"? It's nothing new, really. Manufacturers and retailers have used it for years to automate business-to-business transactions, expediting communication to get prices, orders, invoices and shipping...

Executive decision making through data warehousing: here is a way of acquiring those aggregate data that everyone talks about.
January 1, 1998... Data warehousing is the electronic collection of information from separate providers about their clients and service delivery, most commonly via their MIS or practice management systems. It is not, as commonly defined, merely...

Maintaining patient information during a merger.
January 1, 1998... Change is to the healthcare industry what blue is to the sky--and about as ubiquitous in its effects. Healthcare workers feel it every day. Patients feel it, too, every time they walk into their doctors' offices, check into or...

Taming the Web: six useful sites.
January 1, 1998... If you've ever spent hours searching for information on the World Wide Web, you know that it can be a frustrating experience. In many ways, it's an information jungle out there, and your efforts can leave you feeling like a...

Corporate compliance/corporate culture: a way to avoid having "the lawyers" run the healthcare organization.
January 1, 1998... Front page headlines in national newspapers, cover stories in popular as well as healthcare magazines, and TV broadcast news have all been trumpeting the Federal government's nationwide investigations of healthcare business practices....

Findings from Project MATCH: fact or artifact?
January 1, 1998... In a recent Behavioral Health Management interview with John P. Allen, PhD[1], Chief of Treatment Research for the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), on what NIAAA's Project Match `really found,' the principal...

Managing heroin addiction: a look at the options.(interview with Alan I. Leshner)(Interview)
January 1, 1998... As managed behavioral healthcare organizations (MBHOs) become increasingly involved with public programs, so grows their exposure to the treatment realities of heroin addiction. It has been a field replete with new developments of...

IMS worries.(information management systems)
January 1, 1998... In this issue we're taking a look at many changing facets of informa io management (IM) in the managed behavioral health field. And for good reason: It is the area for which we receive the most requests for coverage. Evidently...