Behavioral Health Management articles from January 1999

Behavioral Health Management archives from January 1999

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
January 1, 1999... Dear Ms. Oss: I would like to congratulate Associate Editor Cindy Grahl for an excellent job on an article she published based on our interview, "Mapping the Meds" (Behavioral Health Management 1998;18:20-24). In all fairness to your...

Behavioral Dollars: Who Got What from Whom.
January 1, 1999... This past December, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) released the first comprehensive study of healthcare spending for substance abuse and mental health since 1986. Produced under contract by The MEDSTAT...

There's an Oryx in Your Future.
January 1, 1999... The Joint Commission's Oryx initiative is quickly coming to fruition. Many of the outcomes evaluation systems are closed, however, and are available only to their "members." Other systems are very expensive and might also require a large...

Selecting a Management Information System: Part I.
January 1, 1999... No single issue is more problematic for executives in the behavioral health and social service fields than acquiring appropriate technology. Increased competition for contracts and falling prices for services are forcing executives to look to...

How to Think About Information Systems.
January 1, 1999... Sometimes just thinking about (much less paying) for them can be overwhelming--it needn't be As the pressure increases on provider organizations to accept at least some responsibility for the financial, as well as clinical, success of...

Managed Care: The Key to Coping.
January 1, 1999... What purchasers really want in return for their behavioral health benefit dollars (or for dollars spent for any purchase) is value. Value is a function of cost and quality and therefore can be enhanced by increasing quality or decreasing cost,...

Solving the Mysteries of System Selection.
January 1, 1999... Some streetwise advice from the vendor side Web Object, Client/Server, Internet Ready, n-tier, SQL database, Open System, Graphic User Interface, Browser-enabled, Behavioral Health Software at...

Computerized Outcomes Monitoring: The University of Arkansas Weighs In.
January 1, 1999... A leading university research center announces its own product for this future technology The Oryx initiative sponsored by the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) has moved the healthcare industry's...

ROI for an Electronic Medical Record.
January 1, 1999... Return on investment for information systems is an open question. One psychiatric hospital took a closer look For years, information technology (IT) professionals have been trying to sell the "paperless" solution to the medical record...

A Guide to Internet-Based Applications in Behavioral Healthcare.
January 1, 1999... The Web is not only for surfing or browsing. Put it to work! It is commonly known that a critical component in today's business environment is a computer information system. Ready access to quality information allows corporate users to make...

ValueOptions: Striving for More of Both.
January 1, 1999... Interview with Ronald I. Dozoretz, MD, Chairman, President and CEO, and John Hill, Chief Operating Officer ValueOptions is the result of the other mega-merger in managed behavioral care in 1998 (the first, of course, being Magellan...

Managed Behavioral Care for Adolescents: Special Concerns.
January 1, 1999... Thoughts on effective approaches by a seasoned practitioner More than 86 million privately insured Americans are covered for mental health services under some form of managed care arrangement, according to the Institute for Behavioral...

Database Marketing: Reaching an Audience of One.
January 1, 1999... Pharmaceutical companies have for years been gathering and storing increasingly detailed information about individuals, conscious that new ways of using this information, and of increasing its value, are emerging. Within the field of database...

Wandering Through Computer Magazine Wonderland.
January 1, 1999... I spend more than six hours a day using my computer, and it's become an essential part of the job. What I haven't been able to do is understand what's in the box that makes the thing work or, more importantly, what to do if it doesn't. ...