Behavioral Health Management articles from July 2001

Behavioral Health Management archives from July 2001

Compliance: Happy Payers, Stressed Providers.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Compliance has become an issue of strategy, of operations and of finance for most organizations in the behavioral health field. For most executives, developing the infrastructure (people, processes and information systems) necessary to comply...

Prescription Drug Costs: The Medicaid Battlefield.
July 1, 2001... Most recent media interest on public policy on pharmaceuticals has focused on the proposed prescription drug benefit for Medicare and the Bush administration's proposed medication discount card for beneficiaries. This attention is not matched...

Resources for B2B and B2C.(business-to-business, business-to-consumer)
July 1, 2001... Behavioral healthcare organizations are continuing to find opportunities on the Internet to upgrade their business management and consumer relations efforts. A number of new alternatives have emerged within recent months that offer promise in...

Why There's a HIPAA in Your Future.(Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996)
July 1, 2001... Everywhere you turn in the healthcare media you can find something about HIPAA. If you have been out of the country for a while, the acronym stands for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, and it means that...

Internet/Human Resources Book.(Web-Based Human Resources: The Technologies and Trends That Are Transforming HR)(Review)
July 1, 2001... Web-Based Human Resources: The Technologies and Trends That Are Transforming HR (Alfred J. Walker, editor) addresses one of the hottest issues facing companies and their HR executives: how to integrate technology into HR operations and service...

Encrypted E-Mail.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... ZixMail, a product of ZixIt Corporation, enables users to send and receive encrypted and digitally signed e-mails using existing e-mail systems and addresses. ZixMail helps meet HIPAA requirements, is easy to use, supplies irrefutable proof of...

Recovery Month 2001 Materials.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... The new 2001 National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month observance materials have been released by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT). The theme for this year's...

Electronic Ordering Options.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Carstens, Inc., a provider of medical charting solutions, now offers its customers electronic ordering options, which include its Internet-based e-store and the Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) purchasing system--a paperless system that...

Distance Education Site.(Addiction Technology Transfer Center Network )(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... The Addiction Technology Transfer Center Network (ATTC) has launched addictioned.org to assist students and professionals in identifying distance education opportunities in the addiction field. To facilitate the site's development, the ATTC...

Client-Server System.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... DocuTrac, Inc. (DTI), has released a new Client-Server Edition of its QuicDoc[R] Clinical System. The new release uses ActiveX[R] Data Objects (ADO) programming and Microsoft SQL Server. It maintains much of the same features and functionality...

13th Annual Behavioral Healthcare Tomorrow/ Behavioral Informatics Tomorrow Conference.
July 1, 2001... Comprehensive NeuroScience, Inc. (CNS), announces that the 13th Annual Behavioral Healthcare Tomorrow/Behavioral Informatics Tomorrow Conference will take place October 8 to 10, with preconference events occurring on October 7. The theme of the...

The Echo Group and InfoMC Pause Merger Discussions.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... The Echo Group and InfoMC, Inc. (InfoMC), have announced that they are taking a break from merger discussions. New opportunities and sales in 2001 are the primary reasons that The Echo Group and InfoMC cite for this decision. According to Echo...

ACCREDITATION 2001.
July 1, 2001... New standards and initiatives from NCQA, JCAHO, CARF and COA Every year since the year major healthcare accreditation agencies began to take behavioral healthcare seriously--1997--Behavioral Health Management has asked them to update has...

FIGHTING OUT OF THE PARTIAL HOSPITALIZATION QUAGMIRE.
July 1, 2001... INTERVIEW WITH CHARLES G. RAY, PRESIDENT AND CEO, NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR COMMUNITY BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE Political conservatives have often argued that government shouldn't just "throw money at a problem." Whatever your political persuasion,...

KEYS to developing a regulatory compliance program.
July 1, 2001... Review these basics for staying out of serious legal hot water A healthcare compliance plan is a formal operational program. It has specific policies, procedures and staffing designed to ensure that a healthcare organization prevents and...

Elevating the Business Ethics of Employee Assistance.
July 1, 2001... Recommendations from a national field survey The employee assistance (EA) field has gone through many transformations in its history: from the emergence of formal occupational alcoholism programs in the 1940s, to their evolution into the...

AS A RISK MANAGEMENT TOOL.
July 1, 2001... Employee assistance programs offer more than a helping hand--they improve the hard numbers involved in risk management At their inception, employee assistance programs (EAPs) primarily addressed alcohol and substance abuse in the workplace....

The Basics of a Credentialing Operation.
July 1, 2001... Provider credentialing is more demanding today, for a variety of reasons One might argue that credentialing is the very foundation upon which an effective accreditation compliance program is built. Without a sound program by which...

WORKPLACE Flexibility KEY OF TODAY'S STAFFING.
July 1, 2001... Breaking the workaday mold can lead to staffing success Today, it is more challenging than ever to attract and retain talented employees. While many employers continue to use the same techniques they've always used, others are discovering...

Privacy vs security in the HIPAA environment.
July 1, 2001... the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) promises a sweeping impact on the business of healthcare. Although the federal regulation, to take effect in April 2003, defines standards and requirements regarding the...

Examining Employees From All Angles: The 360-Degree Evaluation.
July 1, 2001... Interview with Shirley Arney, Quinco Behavioral Health Systems Patient feedback is a core element of most behavioral health treatment plans--but when it comes time for employee feedback, organizations often find the process wanting....

Credentials Losing Credence?
July 1, 2001... Social workers do 60% of the counseling in this country. Many of us in the field began our careers attending one of the many graduate schools of social work. Remember them? That's where we took our lofty notions of healing mankind, mixed with...