Brief Description
- Inventory and articulate what’s currently available and what is needed in the realm of health information technology (HIT) to support evidence-based patient-centered integrated care.
- Identify core functionalities needed in any system such as:
- Registry functions: population-level tracking
- Screening and symptom tracking measures
- Entry of patient information
- Individual and aggregate reporting
- Interoperability with other EHRs and other HIT applications
- Define stakeholders and get their input (CMs, behavioral health, primary care, NCQA, NQF, etc.).
Opportunity (Why Now?)
- Relevant evidence, experience & knowledge exists on how IT can help facilitate and ‘take to scale’ patient-centered evidence-based integrated behavioral health care.
- EHR manufacturers HAVE NOT focused on this market except for small behavioral health ‘niche vendors’.
- Registries are key for good population-based care but having ‘external’/extra systems outside an organization’s HER can be a barrier to registry utilization.
- Potential for standardization
- ACOs will need and require the capacity to track populations and support measurement-based care.
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