Blog for Mental & Behavioral Health Providers

Blog EHR Technology Growing Your Practice Managing Your Practice Patient Portal Practice Owner Telehealth

How to Increase Patient Portal Adoption

Patient portals are an empowering tool for your behavioral health clients, as well as for your office staff and clinicians. However, despite all the benefits, it can be difficult to get patients to use the portal – or even activate…

Heidi AmrineSeptember 29, 2020

Blog EHR Technology Managing Your Practice Practice Owner Uncategorized

EHR Goals for a Behavioral Health Practice

What gets you out of bed and over to your practice each morning? Odds are that you think about something like meaningful work with your clients and the success of your practice as a business. But whatever your specific goals…

Heidi AmrineSeptember 28, 2020

Blog EHR Technology Managing Your Practice Office Manager Practice Owner

A Guide to Choosing the Right Mental Health EHR

Shopping for the right mental health EHR can be challenging for private practices. Software vendors package feature sets and services in different ways, making it difficult to compare one solution to another. The search for the right mental health EHR…

Heidi AmrineSeptember 28, 2020

Blog EHR Technology Managing Your Practice Patient Portal Practice Owner

EHR Technology Checklist

Finding the right EHR means asking the right questions. When searching for an EHR, you likely have a list of criteria that is important for your practice. Perhaps you want to ensure the platform utilizes current technology, is intuitive, or…

Heidi AmrineSeptember 28, 2020

Blog EHR Technology Managing Your Practice Office Manager Practice Owner Transitioning from Paper

When It’s Time to Switch EHR Solutions

5 Indications A Change is Needed For many behavioral health practices, looking back at an EHR implementation is not always done with fondness. Taking on a new software solution often creates strain on a practice’s limited time and resources. Even…

Heidi AmrineSeptember 28, 2020

Billing for Behavioral Health Blog EHR Technology Managing Your Practice Patient Portal Practice Owner Scheduling

How Efficient Is my Private Practice?

A Quiz for Behavioral Health Professionals. As a behavioral health professional, the total amount of work hours you put into your practice goes well beyond the face time spent with patients. For every billable hour, your practice must also account…

Heidi AmrineSeptember 28, 2020

Blog EHR Technology Growing Your Practice Managing Your Practice Practice Owner

How to Build a Business Case

Improving operational efficiency and reducing waste are important goals of any large organization. Opportunities for improvement can exist in many forms, and can be recognized by anyone not—just by those at the executive level. In fact, it is often those…

Heidi AmrineSeptember 27, 2020

Blog Growing Your Practice Managing Your Practice Office Manager Practice Owner

Vision-Based Buying

Pick your favorite video streaming service and compare it to a random VCR company. If you were to ask them both if they had a pause button, both could honestly reply “yes”, but it would say little about the important…

Heidi AmrineSeptember 19, 2020

Billing Blog Clinical Documentation EHR Technology Growing Your Practice Managing Your Practice Office Manager Patient Portal Practice Administration Practice Owner Scheduling

What is EHR Software?

An electronic health record (EHR) is a centralized digital collection of patient data that has completely replaced paper records in most behavioral health practices. Typical information included in a patient EHR includes medical history, current and past medications, allergy alerts,…

Odd DogSeptember 15, 2020

Blog EHR Technology Managing Your Practice Non-Prescribing Clinician Operating Virtually Practice Owner Prescribing Clinician Telehealth

Decorating Your Virtual Therapy Office

We’ve previously talked about designing and decorating your therapy office as an element of your professional care; studies have shown patients respond to the visual atmosphere of the therapy space*. The recent, widespread shift to telehealth, however, has left many…

Odd DogSeptember 14, 2020

Therapy Notes vs. Progress Notes

Treatment Plan Template

ICD-10 Codes for Depression 2024 – F32.0–F33.3