HealthLeaders Media May 25, 2022
Shared accountability between providers and care settings is a critical element of quality in behavioral health care.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
– Fragmentation of behavioral health care such as various providers operating in silos makes collection of quality data difficult.
– In behavioral health care, shared accountability can be voluntary or created through management systems.
– Digital health information systems are revolutionizing the capture of patient reported behavioral health outcomes.
Overcoming a fragmented system is the key to effectively measuring the efficacy of behavioral health care, a healthcare quality expert says.
Eric Schneider, MD, MSc, is executive vice president of the Quality Measurement and Research Group at the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA). Before joining the NCQA staff in January, he...