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    Certified EHR for Behavioral Healthcare: The Path to Payment
    Posted by Kerry Bailey, 2/16/2011 5:59 PM.
    Certified EHR for Behavioral Healthcare: The Path to Payment Core Solutions, Inc. It’s in the newspaper and on TV. It has enthusiastic advocates and fervent opponents. The web is inundated with debates and discussions surrounding its benefits, drawbacks, and everything in between. It is virtually impossible not to hear about it or be affected by it. Healthcare reform. Whether or not people agree on the government’s strategy, it has been set in motion with the hope that it will improve the ...
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    How Electronic Health Records Aid People with Developmental Disabilities
    Posted by Kerry Bailey, 4/30/2010 1:09 PM.
    Automating health data will help those with developmental disabilities and mental retardation have longer, healthier lives
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    How to Select an EHR Vendor
    Posted by Jeffrey Erb, 7/7/2009 3:12 PM.
    How to Select an Electronic Health Record System These 12 steps will help make the selection process easier and lead you to the EHR that's right for your practice. By Kenneth G. Adler, MD, MMM Article Originally Appeared at AAFP  So you've decided to purchase an electronic health record (EHR) system, and your initial research reveals that more than 200 companies claim to make an EHR. You've barely started looking, and already you feel overwhelmed. A natural tendency might be to c...
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    The Stimulus Package and the States: How EHR Development is Developing
    Posted by Kerry Bailey, 3/31/2010 5:42 PM.
    The Stimulus Package and the States: How EHR Development is Developing By Kaye Eisele With the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 set in motion, $45 billion has been allocated for the development of national electronic healthcare records (EHRs).  Approximately $17 billion of these federal funds has been appropriated for state Medicaid organizations that have already begun distributing these funds to individual states.  As of February 2010, 14 states have rece...
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    Meaningful Use of Electronic Health Records: Definitions and Implications
    Posted by Kerry Bailey, 2/2/2010 3:12 PM.
    Meaningful Use of Electronic Health Records: Definitions and Implications By Nancy Stafford   For those following the national quest to adopt electronic health records (EHRs), it is common knowledge that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service (CMS) released the proposed definitions for “meaningful use” of EHRs on Dec. 30, 2009. The goal behind developing these definitions was to cultivate EHR continuity as the medical community adopts the technology to advance patient safety, heal...
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    CCHIT Certification Update for Electronic Health Records: Is Your Agency Up to the Gamble?
    Posted by Kerry Bailey, 1/7/2010 5:30 PM.
    CCHIT Certification Update for Electronic Health Records:  Is Your Agency Up to the Gamble? By Kaye Eisele Should behavioral health specialists follow Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology’s (CCHIT’s) suggestions to gain certification even before ONC has officially defined what constitutes meaningful use in all electronic health records (EHRs), including mental health and substance abuse records?  For now, the answer may be yes. After all, CCHIT has been at...
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    Adolescent EHRs: Taking Confidentiality One Step Further
    Posted by Kerry Bailey, 12/15/2009 8:44 PM.
    Adolescent EHRs:  Taking Confidentiality One Step Further By Kaye Eisele Adolescence is a challenging time of life.  Not only are teens learning to navigate through the transition from childhood to adulthood, they are also learning to communicate independently to healthcare providers about their individual care.  When confidentiality is observed between the adolescent and health care provider, open communication and trust flourish, thus providing the teen with a solid base in w...
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    EHR Consultants: Do You Need One?
    Posted by Kerry Bailey, 11/9/2009 7:29 PM.
    EHR Consultants: Do You Need One? By Nancy Stafford   Practices of all types are budgeting and planning for Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems. They are stepping out of their comfort zone to be more efficient as they advance into the electronic age. The American Health Information Management Association suggests that the first step towards an EHR system is to have a well thought out plan and know exactly what your practice needs in an EHR system. Break it down to manageable steps. T...
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    The Importance of EHRs in Foster Care Systems
    Posted by Kaye, 10/12/2009 4:07 PM.
    The Importance of EHRs in Foster Care Systems By Kaye Eisele   The average foster child in the United States will have three foster care placements.  However, some foster children experience even more placements, often times resulting in a disarray or lack of healthcare data necessary for quality medical treatment, resulting in treatment disruption.  Moreover, the majority of foster children have multiple medical problems thus making their health records complicated at best, ev...
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    EHRs in Behavioral Health: Left out in the Cold or Just Warming Up?
    Posted by Kevin Vredeveld, 10/9/2009 7:40 PM.
     EHRs in Behavioral Health: Left out in the Cold or Just Warming Up? By Kaye Eisele Electronic health records in behavioral health most definitely seem to bewell on their way to being left out in the cold.  In fact, they may not even be slightly warm.  As privacy advocates see it, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) continues to struggle in the face of EHR rulings for confidentiality that has many behavioral health advocates up in arms.  Almost everyone is pol...
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