Behavioral Health Management articles from January 2001

Behavioral Health Management archives from January 2001

"Consumer-Driven": More Than Talking the Talk.
January 1, 2001... Many meetings I've attended during the past year or two have characterized the "new" behavioral health field as "consumer-centric," with an inference that the previous era of behavioral healthcare was not as focused on consumers. These...

Gov. Thompson's Behavioral Health Reform.
January 1, 2001... George W. Bush paid little attention to health policy during six years as governor of Texas. He generally delegated the issues to trusted appointees with track records in support of private-sector approaches to healthcare. For this reason, the...

WASHINGTON INSIGHTS.
January 1, 2001... Despite these caveats and limitations, WDHFS insists that the redesigned public mental healthcare system will improve and expand service delivery. A departmental spokesperson writes: We are firmly committed to developing a better...

How Do You Use the Internet? Readers Respond.
January 1, 2001... Behavioral Health Management is now asking readers for their responses to questions of interest to the field. In a recent fax poll, we asked the question, "How do you use the Internet?" We asked respondents to rank their responses in terms of...

"Customers" and "Products" Do Belong.
January 1, 2001... I remember the first time I ever used the word "customer" in a presentation to healthcare providers. I was called on the carpet by a CEO and reminded that the word "customer" had nothing to do with healthcare--the people seeking our services...

A Quick Review of Today's Options.
January 1, 2001... Increasing margin pressure, HIPAA and other privacy rules; accreditation requirements; and purchaser demands for performance reporting are just a few of the factors that continue to make technology a "must have" on every manager's list. The...

Technology for Market Survival.
January 1, 2001... Developments in information management systems enable organizations to adapt to new market demands This year we can expect a significant focus in the behavioral health field on the deployment of new information technology; the focus will...

INTERNET SECURITY.
January 1, 2001... A LEAF OF FAITH? Companies are working hard to preserve the healthcare data security that behavioral health organizations demand Security on the Internet might be depicted as a lock on your online shopping screen. The lock provides the...

Client/Server vs. ASP making the choice.(application service provider)
January 1, 2001... Based on an interview with DAVID RYLAND Vice-President of Client Services Askesis Development Group, Inc. Almost everyone in the managed behavioral healthcare field has heard by now of the application service provider (ASP) concept, an...

HIPAA: What does it mean for behavioral health?(Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act)
January 1, 2001... It might be more--much more--than you think HIPAA is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, and it was passed with broad bipartisan congressional support in 1996. At the time the legislation was enacted, most behavioral...

PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT.(behavioral health sources)
January 1, 2001... Licensing Agreement Civerex Systems, Inc., has licensed its CIVER-PSYCH[R] Behavioral Healthcare Management software to InfoMC for integration with its eCura[TM] information System, an MBHO/EAP application. InfoMC will be licensing...

E-mail AND OTHER CONSIDERATIONS(*).
January 1, 2001... Telecounselors and -coaches are venturing into new legal territory, and e-mail might be the first frontier. A guide for safe passage, based on excerpts from a forthcoming book by Marlene Maheu, Pam Whitten and Ace Allen, MD Because...

Time for New Blood.(Behavioral Healthcare Tomorrow conference)
January 1, 2001... Something has been gnawing away at me since before the Behavioral Healthcare Tomorrow (BHT) show in September. I went to the show to see if I could stop the gnawing. Something new would be out there, I was sure. New technology? New education...