Who Should Do What? Scope of Practice; Treatment Tech Shift Clinical Best Practices
By Monica E. Oss, Chief Executive Officer There has been a long debate about the scope of health care practices. What type of licensed clinical professionals can perform particular functions? Should psychologists and/or pharmacists prescribe psychotropic medications? What supervision do nurse practitioners and physician assistants need? (Should ‘physician assistants’ be renamed ‘physician associates’?) Psychologists can…
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Qualifacts + Credible Acquires InSync Healthcare Solutions
GETTYSBURG, Pa. (January 9, 2022) – Qualifacts + Credible, a leading provider of electronic health record platforms for behavioral health and human services organizations, today announced it has acquired InSync Healthcare Solutions. InSync Healthcare Solutions is a leading provider of EHR and practice management software plus revenue cycle management services for behavioral, medical and rehabilitative professionals. Qualifacts + Credible is adding InSync’s highly configurable, clean and intuitive platform…
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How To Manage The 5% With Multiple Chronic Conditions & Complex Support Needs
By Monica E. Oss There is a lot of investment money going into the mental health field—in fact, $14.7 billion in the first half of this year (see Why Are Digital First Mental Health Companies So Popular?). Much of that investment is focused on digital behavioral health systems and tools for both professional and self-care. However,…
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Value-Based Reimbursement Models Help SPARC Get A Leg Up In Medicaid Managed Care Contracting
By Meena Dayak SPARC Services & Programs (SPARC) is a behavioral health provider organization in North Carolina that has been providing home and community-based services since 2015. They serve 425 consumers monthly and employ 70 full-time staff. They focus on complex consumers—children and adults with severe and persistent mental illnesses (SPMI) who have not been…
The Future Is 2020 In The Rearview Mirror: A 2021 Forecast
The COVID-19 pandemic caused major shifts throughout organizations, industries, and the entire world. The behavioral health and human services market is no exception. As we look back on 2020, there were some short-term tactics that we anticipated would be around for a while to allow provider organizations to create stability, resiliency, and success while weathering…
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Eight Tips To Ensure Your Organization Keeps Innovating Post-Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to many technology innovations in health care. The most noticeable transformation is the rise of telehealth with claims skyrocketing from less than 0.01% of total visits to 80% of behavioral health visits during the first quarter of the pandemic (see How’s That Strategic Plan Going?). We predict consumers and payers…
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Who Should Do What? Scope of Practice; Treatment Tech Shift Clinical Best Practices
By Monica E. Oss, Chief Executive Officer There has been a long debate about the scope of health care practices. What type of licensed clinical professionals can perform particular functions? Should psychologists and/or pharmacists prescribe psychotropic medications? What supervision do nurse practitioners and physician assistants need? (Should ‘physician assistants’ be renamed ‘physician associates’?) Psychologists can…
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Qualifacts + Credible Acquires InSync Healthcare Solutions
GETTYSBURG, Pa. (January 9, 2022) – Qualifacts + Credible, a leading provider of electronic health record platforms for behavioral health and human services organizations, today announced it has acquired InSync Healthcare Solutions. InSync Healthcare Solutions is a leading provider of EHR and practice management software plus revenue cycle management services for behavioral, medical and rehabilitative professionals. Qualifacts + Credible is adding InSync’s highly configurable, clean and intuitive platform…
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Top EHR Trends In 2021: Results Of The Annual Behavioral Health EHR Survey
We’re bombarded with stories about electronic health records (EHR) evolving to become more flexible and use more services like blockchain, cryptocurrencies, and artificial intelligence, but what do your peers report firsthand? We recently concluded the sixth annual National Behavioral Health EHR Survey and found that only 19% of provider organizations report their clinical, scheduling, billing,…
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Maximize Your Organizational Effectiveness With Analytics & Reporting
Improving value, competitive advantage, and sustainability are top of mind for executives of most behavioral health and human services provider organizations. None of these improvements are possible without consistent, high-quality reporting and analytics. Implementing analytics and reporting is much easier than you may believe. Join Christy Winter, Senior Product Manager, Analytics, of Qualifacts + Credible…
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How To Manage The 5% With Multiple Chronic Conditions & Complex Support Needs
By Monica E. Oss There is a lot of investment money going into the mental health field—in fact, $14.7 billion in the first half of this year (see Why Are Digital First Mental Health Companies So Popular?). Much of that investment is focused on digital behavioral health systems and tools for both professional and self-care. However,…
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Making Strategy Work – Mission, Growth, & Sustainability
Free web forum, sponsored by Qualifacts + Credible and OPEN MINDS Michael Porter stated that strategy was really just answering the two most basic questions of an organization: Who do we serve and how do we serve them? While there is elegant simplicity in that phrasing, planned strategic change is a delicate balancing act of…
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40% & Counting
By Monica E Oss, Chief Executive Officer The proportion of U.S. health care reimbursement dollars paid in advanced value-based reimbursement (VBR) models—contracts with shared savings, downside financial risk, and/or population-based payments—just passed 40%. The slow adoption of VBR with financial gain sharing and downside risk sharing—along with the unique challenges to specialty provider organizations in…
VBR Marches On – A Trend Driving 2022 Strategy
By Monica E. Oss, Chief Executive Officer We started the year with the release of new reports on the continued movement away from fee-for-service reimbursement to alternate, value-based reimbursement (VBR) models. Over half of health systems are planning to move to “payvider” market positioning in 2022 (see Nearly 60% Of Health Systems Aim To Become ‘Payviders’…
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Who Should Do What? Scope of Practice; Treatment Tech Shift Clinical Best Practices
By Monica E. Oss, Chief Executive Officer There has been a long debate about the scope of health care practices. What type of licensed clinical professionals can perform particular functions? Should psychologists and/or pharmacists prescribe psychotropic medications? What supervision do nurse practitioners and physician assistants need? (Should ‘physician assistants’ be renamed ‘physician associates’?) Psychologists can…
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The Opportunities & Challenges Of VBR – Making It Work On The Ground
By Monica E. Oss, Chief Executive Officer Despite significant movement, behavioral health is trailing the rest of health care domains in value-based reimbursement contracting. Forty-five percent of specialty provider organizations have some value-based reimbursement (VBR)—compared to 72% of primary care organizations (for more, see, The OPEN MINDS 2022 Survey On Value-Based Reimbursement In Specialty And Primary Care). And…
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Qualifacts + Credible Named 2022 Best In Klas: Software & Services
GETTYSBURG, Pa. (February 20, 2022) — Qualifacts + Credible, a leading provider of electronic health record (EHR) platforms for behavioral health and human services organizations, today announced the Credible platform has ranked No. 1 in the 2022 Best in KLAS: Software and Services report. Additionally, Qualifacts + Credible’s CareLogic EHR platform is ranked No. 2 in the 2022 Best in KLAS: Software…
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Qualifacts + Credible Acquires InSync Healthcare Solutions
GETTYSBURG, Pa. (January 9, 2022) – Qualifacts + Credible, a leading provider of electronic health record platforms for behavioral health and human services organizations, today announced it has acquired InSync Healthcare Solutions. InSync Healthcare Solutions is a leading provider of EHR and practice management software plus revenue cycle management services for behavioral, medical and rehabilitative professionals. Qualifacts + Credible is adding InSync’s highly configurable, clean and intuitive platform…
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Who Should Do What? Scope of Practice; Treatment Tech Shift Clinical Best Practices
By Monica E. Oss, Chief Executive Officer There has been a long debate about the scope of health care practices. What type of licensed clinical professionals can perform particular functions? Should psychologists and/or pharmacists prescribe psychotropic medications? What supervision do nurse practitioners and physician assistants need? (Should ‘physician assistants’ be renamed ‘physician associates’?) Psychologists can…
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Qualifacts + Credible Acquires InSync Healthcare Solutions
GETTYSBURG, Pa. (January 9, 2022) – Qualifacts + Credible, a leading provider of electronic health record platforms for behavioral health and human services organizations, today announced it has acquired InSync Healthcare Solutions. InSync Healthcare Solutions is a leading provider of EHR and practice management software plus revenue cycle management services for behavioral, medical and rehabilitative professionals. Qualifacts + Credible is adding InSync’s highly configurable, clean and intuitive platform…
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How To Manage The 5% With Multiple Chronic Conditions & Complex Support Needs
By Monica E. Oss There is a lot of investment money going into the mental health field—in fact, $14.7 billion in the first half of this year (see Why Are Digital First Mental Health Companies So Popular?). Much of that investment is focused on digital behavioral health systems and tools for both professional and self-care. However,…
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Value-Based Reimbursement Models Help SPARC Get A Leg Up In Medicaid Managed Care Contracting
By Meena Dayak SPARC Services & Programs (SPARC) is a behavioral health provider organization in North Carolina that has been providing home and community-based services since 2015. They serve 425 consumers monthly and employ 70 full-time staff. They focus on complex consumers—children and adults with severe and persistent mental illnesses (SPMI) who have not been…
The Future Is 2020 In The Rearview Mirror: A 2021 Forecast
The COVID-19 pandemic caused major shifts throughout organizations, industries, and the entire world. The behavioral health and human services market is no exception. As we look back on 2020, there were some short-term tactics that we anticipated would be around for a while to allow provider organizations to create stability, resiliency, and success while weathering…
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Eight Tips To Ensure Your Organization Keeps Innovating Post-Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to many technology innovations in health care. The most noticeable transformation is the rise of telehealth with claims skyrocketing from less than 0.01% of total visits to 80% of behavioral health visits during the first quarter of the pandemic (see How’s That Strategic Plan Going?). We predict consumers and payers…
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Leveraging Your EHR To Accommodate The “No Surprises Act”
While many state Medicaid programs have had balance billing regulations in place for ten or more years, the “No Surprises Act” has many nuances that impact behavioral health agencies, particularly in the area of compliance. During the webinar on October 11, 2022, Tammy Selleck, Senior Manager of Revenue Cycle Management Services for Qualifacts reviewed the…
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Navigating Complex Care Models – 5 Stages of Complex Care and Reimbursement Model Experience
As provider organizations evaluate and adopt complex care and reimbursement models, there are five consistent stages of experience. Whether taking on Value-Based Care contracts, becoming or working with a CCBHC program provider, the path to success travels a similar progression. On August 24, 2022, Qualifacts’ CCBHC Program Manager Mary Givens shared insights and best practices…
6 Steps To Improving CCBHC Outcomes The Berks Counseling Center Case Study
On May 25, 2022, Qualifacts’ CCBHC Program Manager Mary Givens and John Heim, Technology Specialist, EHR Systems for Berks Counseling Center discussed a 6-step process for improving performance on behavioral health led CCBHC outcomes. They provided insight into the greatest challenges of high performance on the CCBHC behavioral health led measures along with the successes…
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Who Should Do What? Scope of Practice; Treatment Tech Shift Clinical Best Practices
By Monica E. Oss, Chief Executive Officer There has been a long debate about the scope of health care practices. What type of licensed clinical professionals can perform particular functions? Should psychologists and/or pharmacists prescribe psychotropic medications? What supervision do nurse practitioners and physician assistants need? (Should ‘physician assistants’ be renamed ‘physician associates’?) Psychologists can…
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How To Optimize Technology: An OPEN MINDS Seminar On Getting The Most Value From Your Technology Investments
This presentation took place on August 23, 2021 at The 2021 OPEN MINDS Management Best Practices Institute. In this session, Sharon Hicks, Senior Associate and Kim Bond, Executive Vice President at OPEN MINDS, discussed what needs to be addressed to ensure your organization is on the path to maximizing your tech investment, including: How to…
Technology Strategy For Sustainability—EHRs Are Just The Start
This closing keynote presentation took place October 27, 2021 during The 2021 OPEN MINDS Technology & Analytics Institute. OPEN MINDS Chief Executive Officer Monica E. Oss gave an up-to-the-minute look at the critical changes in the landscape for serving complex consumers – and what they mean for organizational sustainability post-pandemic. This session covered: The context for selecting technology in…
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Who Should Do What? Scope of Practice; Treatment Tech Shift Clinical Best Practices
By Monica E. Oss, Chief Executive Officer There has been a long debate about the scope of health care practices. What type of licensed clinical professionals can perform particular functions? Should psychologists and/or pharmacists prescribe psychotropic medications? What supervision do nurse practitioners and physician assistants need? (Should ‘physician assistants’ be renamed ‘physician associates’?) Psychologists can…
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Qualifacts + Credible Acquires InSync Healthcare Solutions
GETTYSBURG, Pa. (January 9, 2022) – Qualifacts + Credible, a leading provider of electronic health record platforms for behavioral health and human services organizations, today announced it has acquired InSync Healthcare Solutions. InSync Healthcare Solutions is a leading provider of EHR and practice management software plus revenue cycle management services for behavioral, medical and rehabilitative professionals. Qualifacts + Credible is adding InSync’s highly configurable, clean and intuitive platform…
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How To Manage The 5% With Multiple Chronic Conditions & Complex Support Needs
By Monica E. Oss There is a lot of investment money going into the mental health field—in fact, $14.7 billion in the first half of this year (see Why Are Digital First Mental Health Companies So Popular?). Much of that investment is focused on digital behavioral health systems and tools for both professional and self-care. However,…
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Value-Based Reimbursement Models Help SPARC Get A Leg Up In Medicaid Managed Care Contracting
By Meena Dayak SPARC Services & Programs (SPARC) is a behavioral health provider organization in North Carolina that has been providing home and community-based services since 2015. They serve 425 consumers monthly and employ 70 full-time staff. They focus on complex consumers—children and adults with severe and persistent mental illnesses (SPMI) who have not been…
Preparing For The Unknown: The Six EHR Functionalities Essential For Surviving During & After A Pandemic
White Paper Available Free Of Charge, Courtesy Of Qualifacts + Credible& The Value Based Care For Behavioral Health Online Community This last year has dramatically changed the world and with it, the health and human services industry. Large portions of staff are now working from home. Consumers are increasingly anxious and depressed from the…
The Future Is 2020 In The Rearview Mirror: A 2021 Forecast
The COVID-19 pandemic caused major shifts throughout organizations, industries, and the entire world. The behavioral health and human services market is no exception. As we look back on 2020, there were some short-term tactics that we anticipated would be around for a while to allow provider organizations to create stability, resiliency, and success while weathering…
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