Behavioral Health Management articles from January 2003

Behavioral Health Management archives from January 2003

Resolutions for a well-managed new year. (Editorial).(Editorial)
January 1, 2003... My holiday season included a meeting with the faculty of the public health department of a well-known medical school. The focus of our discussion was the continuing lag in adoption of standard business-management tools by executives of...

States cope with soaring mental health costs. (Washington Insights).
January 1, 2003... In the last issue, this column described how nearly all state governments face a devastating combination of increased costs for public-sector mental health services and declining revenue. The major causes of this dilemma include rapid increases...

Five barriers to America's mental health. (News From Here And There).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... The President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health has weighed in with its own cautionary report outlining the challenges facing the nation's mental health system. The commission specifically cited five major barriers to mental healthcare:...

Psychotherapy use constant--but a changing profile emerges. (News From Here And There).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... The use of outpatient psychotherapy did not change significantly from 1987 to 1997--it involved 3.2% of the population in 1987 and 3.6% in 1997. The use of long-term psychotherapy has declined, and the use of psychotropic drugs has increased in...

Public mental health system "dysfunctional". (News From Here And There).
January 1, 2003... Children and youth who experience dysfunction in mental health and educational systems are more likely to be caught up in the failing systems designed to serve adults with mental illnesses. And, continuing the cycle, adults whose needs are not...

Studies highlight consequences of marijuana use. (News From Here And There).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Combining 16 different articles based on presentations made at a workshop of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), the Journal of Clinical Pharmacology offered a special supplement with its November 2002 issue titled, "The Clinical...

Opiate addiction treatment moves to office-based model. (News From Here And There).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Last fall the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced the approval of buprenorphine hydrochloride administered in office-based treatment--a new model that allows individual physicians to treat opioid addiction in their practices. Treatment...

Looking forward to change: guidelines for approaching new management system challenges. (Cover Story).
January 1, 2003... Several months ago, I was asked to facilitate an executive retreat. The CEO threw me a real challenge--she asked me to come up with five key insights that I had learned from a decade of consulting with the management teams of behavioral health...

HIPAA privacy: a guide to online help: the Web addresses might be long, but the advice is solid. (Cover Story).(Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act)
January 1, 2003... On October 15, 2002, thousands of Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) covered entities--health plans, clearinghouses, and providers, including many identified as behavioral health organizations--filed for a one-year...

Is your HIPAA training up to speed? Now is the time to ask the questions. (Cover Story).(Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act)
January 1, 2003... Within the Health Insurance Portability and Acountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule are administrative requirements that say, "A covered entity must train all members of its workforce on the policies and procedures with respect to protected...

What frontline staff need to know about HIPAA: a "plain English" version of some of the highlights. (Cover Story).(Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act)
January 1, 2003... The Privacy Rule of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) goes into effect on April 14, 2003. One of its many stipulations is that all staff in a "covered healthcare entity" must receive training on HIPAA. Do frontline...

Fostering resilience in children: providers in Montgomery County, Maryland, relate how they helped kids cope with last fall's sniper attacks.
January 1, 2003... The recent tragic sniper attacks in Montgomery County, Maryland, and other communities in metropolitan Washington, D.C., strongly impacted children and adolescents. While such events remind us of our human vulnerability, they also afford us the...

Exploring the new pharmaceuticals: an overview of behavioral drugs, near and future, with Angelo Sambunaris, MD, Atlanta Institute of Medicine and Research.
January 1, 2003... In all the clamor about the costs of prescription drugs and the need to limit pharmaceutical companies' patent protection (not to mention recent discussions about expanding prescribing privileges to psychologists), it' s easy to forget the...

Lessons learned from integrating behavioral and primary care: a report on one primary care clinic's program to integrate behavioral health services into its day-to-day operations.
January 1, 2003... In July 1997, the Mental Health Service Project and the Mid-Florida Family Health Centers, a division of Winter Haven Hospital, began a collaborative effort to integrate services between a behavioral health specialist (BHS) and a primary care...

Separating fact from fiction about police stress: the author examines long-standing beliefs.
January 1, 2003... Mental health professionals need accurate information regarding police stress, especially since 9/11. Increased anxiety among families of police officers (and other public safety workers) can be normalized in treatment settings with accurate...

Technology options in mobile computing for behavioral healthcare, part one. (Infotech: the SATVA view).
January 1, 2003... "Goin' mobile, keep me movin'"--The Who While penned more than 30 years ago, these famous lyrics sound the anthem of legions of mobile behavioral healthcare workers, as they increasingly move toward field-based service delivery. Today there...

Counseling resources. (Product Spotlight).
January 1, 2003... Incorporating Spirituality in Counseling and Psychotherapy: Theory and Technique, published by John Wiley & Sons, provides guidance on how to handle issues of spirituality in furthering the therapeutic process and describes techniques for...

Guide to state and federal drug-testing laws. (Product Spotlight).
January 1, 2003... An expanded, updated, and revised edition of an annual publication that digests and analyzes every federal and state drug-testing court decision, legislative statute, and regulation has been published by the Institute for a Drug-Free Workplace....

Online solution for HIPAA compliance. (Product Spotlight).
January 1, 2003... HIPAASimple.com delivers an online system that healthcare providers use to achieve ongoing compliance with HIPAA. Rather than receiving general-purpose templates, lists, and notebooks, users answer basic questions about their practice, and then...

JCAHO publications. (Product Spotlight).
January 1, 2003... The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) announces the publication of several new resources. The 2003 Comprehensive Accreditation Manual for Behavioral Health Care (CAMBHC) includes all the information a...

Adolescent depression resource. (Product Spotlight).
January 1, 2003... In his book More Than Moody: Recognizing and Treating Adolescent Depression (Penguin Putnam, Inc.), Harold Koplewicz, MD, uses his experience as a clinician and researcher to help parents distinguish between normal teenage angst and true...

Product and disease information online. (Product Spotlight).
January 1, 2003... Eli Lilly and Company has launched LillyConnect.com, a multibrand, interactive e-detailing platform that enables prescribing physicians to access in-depth product and disease information. LillyConnect.com delivers information by integrating the...

Reacting to HIPAA and IT fears. (Views From The Trenches).(Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, information technology)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... While meandering through the trade publications, I noticed that BusinessWeek calls its 2003 healthcare forecast "Growing but Not Glowing," and a Health Data Management headline proclaims, "e-Health Rises from the Ashes." So healthcare and IT...

A psychiatrist's perspective on antipsychotics and type 2 diabetes. (Contemporary Issues In Behavioral Health).
January 1, 2003... In May 2002, Britain's Medicines Control Agency and Japan's Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare issued diabetes-related alerts regarding olanzapine, (1) and Japan later issued an alert for quetiapine. Other reports have focused on clozapine...

Examining the relationship between mental illness, its pharmacologic treatment, and type 2 diabetes. (Contemporary Issues In Behavioral Health).
January 1, 2003... Recent publications have suggested that mental illness is associated with increased prevalence of type 2 diabetes. (1) Furthermore, currently prescribed drugs for the treatment of mental diseases may induce abnormal glucose metabolism and...