EHR Intelligence January 10, 2017
Healthcare leaders at integrated care facilities should enlist strong EHR use for better care coordination between primary care and behavioral health specialists.
As integrated primary care and behavioral healthcare services come to the forefront, healthcare organization leaders must establish strong EHR use to enable better care coordination between the two specialties, finds a study published in the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine.
According to the research team, integrated primary and behavioral healthcare is increasing in popularity, both because it is better supported by value-based payment systems and because it delivers necessary treatment to those managing behavioral health disorders.
Sixty-seven percent of individuals with behavioral health disorders do not receive the care that they need, but when their...