Behavioral Health Management articles from November 2000

Behavioral Health Management archives from November 2000

MBHO Consolidation: Strength or Weakness?(managed behavioral health organizations)
November 1, 2000... The year 2000 has represented a continuation of a decade-long trend in mergers and acquisitions in managed behavioral health and employee assistance programs. According to OPEN MINDS' Yearbook of Managed Behavioral Health Market Share in the...

Sleepy Time in D.C.(fate of Congressional bills affecting behavioral healthcare)
November 1, 2000... The 106th Congress is about to pass into history. Dozens of bills affecting behavioral healthcare were introduced by its Republican and Democratic members. Some would make in-home care of the severely mentally ill more affordable. Others would...

Information Technology: At the Heart of It All.
November 1, 2000... Ten years ago, the behavioral health field was focused on the push to reduce spending. Reductions in total spending, in per-beneficiary spending, in per-day spending--these figures were analyzed and reviewed. Whether you were for it or against...

A Vendors' Alliance (and what it means for behavioral IM technology).(Behavioral Health Software and Technology Vendors Alliance)
November 1, 2000... Interview with Tom Trabin, PhD, MSM, Consultant, Behavioral Health Software and Technology Vendors Alliance What happens when the churning, complicated world of managed behavioral healthcare meets the churning, complicated world of...

Update on the paperless hospital.
November 1, 2000... Since the article "ROI for an Electronic Medical Record" was published (Behavioral Health Management, January/February 1999, p. 28), Saint Vincent's Hospital and Medical Center won the 2000 Nicholas E. Davies Award Special Commendation for...

Real-World Use of IT: FACTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS.(information technology)
November 1, 2000... This survey focused on six public agencies' use of information technology--and led to a key strategic alliance for sharing IT resources. How might other behavioral healthcare organizations compare? Recently, Johnson Consulting Services,...

Market-Driven Behavioral Care: Are We Ready?
November 1, 2000... Customers are demanding that the field change its ways. Here's how and why. Over the past decade, something amazing has happened in the behavioral health and social service field: We have moved from a field where professionals set the...

Disease Management: The Broader, the Better.
November 1, 2000... Disease management is a commonly known term that has now been accepted as a way to hold down healthcare costs. The tools used by disease management firms to target patients with a disease involve a spectrum of methods--from utilization review...

Next Year's Venture Into Cyberspace.
November 1, 2000... Because behavioral care runs behind general healthcare and the manufacturing sector in adapting to the Internet, we have an opportunity to take what's working and apply it. In that light, here's a list of terms I've collected during the past...