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Opioid Settlements are Making Headlines; Is Now The Time to Soften Guidelines?

HIT Consultant

Therefore, unlocking the correct data–at the individual patient and population levels–is critical to reversing this crisis. If providers could easily and securely access dynamic and actionable behavioral health data, they could develop more effective treatment plans based on a patient’s complete history.

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Cindy Friend, Caradigm and Population Health – Harlow on Healthcare

Health Blawg

Behavioral health, said Cindy, doesn’t necessarily have to be integrated into the delivery system, but assessments should be integrated (e.g., PHQ-9’s may be administered by primary care providers), so that the behavioral health data may be integrated into the analytics framework used to manage population health.

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Cindy Friend, Caradigm and Population Health – Harlow on Healthcare

Health Blawg

Behavioral health, said Cindy, doesn’t necessarily have to be integrated into the delivery system, but assessments should be integrated (e.g., PHQ-9’s may be administered by primary care providers), so that the behavioral health data may be integrated into the analytics framework used to manage population health.

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Cindy Friend, Caradigm and Population Health – Harlow on Healthcare

Health Blawg

Behavioral health, said Cindy, doesn’t necessarily have to be integrated into the delivery system, but assessments should be integrated (e.g., PHQ-9’s may be administered by primary care providers), so that the behavioral health data may be integrated into the analytics framework used to manage population health.

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Cindy Friend, Caradigm and Population Health – Harlow on Healthcare

Health Blawg

Behavioral health, said Cindy, doesn’t necessarily have to be integrated into the delivery system, but assessments should be integrated (e.g., PHQ-9’s may be administered by primary care providers), so that the behavioral health data may be integrated into the analytics framework used to manage population health.

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Cindy Friend, Caradigm and Population Health – Harlow on Healthcare

Health Blawg

Behavioral health, said Cindy, doesn’t necessarily have to be integrated into the delivery system, but assessments should be integrated (e.g., PHQ-9’s may be administered by primary care providers), so that the behavioral health data may be integrated into the analytics framework used to manage population health.

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How would you like to change HIPAA?

Health Blawg

In the 1996 HIPAA statute (which covered a lot of other ground), Congress gave itself one year to legislate standards for health data privacy and security, and decreed that if it were to fail to meet that deadline, HHS would have to create regulations from whole cloth. Let’s start with the care coordination question.