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DSM-5 Changes – A closer look at its implications
DSM-5 Changes – A closer look at its implications The American Psychiatric Association’s fifth edition of its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders was released this past May, but the...
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Prioritizing Safety in Discharge Planning
All too often, our psychiatric inpatient facilities function in a disconnected fashion from the community based system. However, psychiatric hospitalization is not a destination point, but a stop...
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Student Mental Health: Confidentiality and legality with student mental...
Student mental health is often overlooked until unfortunate events press the issue. On Nov. 21, 2012, Northwestern University student Alyssa Weaver committed suicide while studying abroad in London at...
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Health IT can enhance mental healthcare through smartphone apps
A lot has been written, said and reported about health information technology over the past few years, but more often than not its locus has been physical health, rather than mental or behavioral....
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Iowa law students help mental health providers navigate Iowa health privacy laws
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act clearly dictates its federal ruling on patient privacy: Whether it’s a physical or electronic health record, patient health information is...
View ArticleThe immigrant paradox: Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola tackles mental health in...
Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola, M.D., Ph.D., 59, is a professor of clinical internal medicine and the founding director of the University of California Davis Center for Reducing Health Disparities. He's also...
View ArticleA glimpse into patient awareness of HIE and EHR reveals lack of information
Health information technology has experienced mostly evolution rather than revolution. In the mental healthcare community, the adoption of behavioral health software to aid coordinated care platforms...
View ArticleNorth Carolina shows exemplary initiative on telepsychiatry
On Aug. 15, 2013, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services alongside state governor Pat McCrory announced a plan to invest $4 million in a new telepsychiatry initiative that would...
View ArticleTake these tips for writing a winning grant proposal to the SAMHSA
Grant applications are considerably more labyrinthine than they used to be. As much as the Internet has done to streamline grant proposals, it's also created extra levels of bureaucracy that can become...
View ArticleTriple Aim – Is it achievable for your community?
Triple Aim is simple. Its goals, as outlined by the Institutes for Healthcare Improvement, an independent not-for-profit organization and a leading innovator in healthcare improvement, are to establish...
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