One of the greatest concerns of eligible professionals in behavioral health regarding the decision to participate in the EHR Incentive Programs of meaningful use is that their participation will cause them to do additional work unrelated to what they see as their mission and their primary job. Behavioral health professionals tell us they are afraid that the work they must do to collect data for the measures of meaningful use is going to decrease their productivity, and more importantly, take away from the time they have to provide services to their clients.

With that challenge in mind, two compliance professionals Lance Niles with Sound Community Services and Jeni Woods with Albertina Kerr Centers along with Qualifacts’ Meaningful Use SME Mary Givens set out to assess how the measures of meaningful use synergize with the standards of CARF and Joint Commission and ultimately, can streamline and help reinforce your accreditation.

Learning Objectives:
During this webinar you will …

- Gain a better understanding of the measures of meaningful use (for an eligible professional) and how they compare to some of the standards of the Joint Commission
- Gain a better understanding of the measures of meaningful use (for an eligible professional) and how they compare to some of the standards of CARF
- Learn how to integrate the measures of meaningful use into your current workflows (based on specific examples)

How is your agency preparing for the future state of behavioral healthcare?

Many executives feel that the rate of change in the behavioral health field is greater now than ever before. As a result, leaders of service provider organizations have an unprecedented need and opportunity to come together to address common challenges and develop new strategies for dealing with the inevitable change to business and clinical practices.

“Through our research, relationships and experience, AHP has discovered that behavioral health and human services organizations can benefit from aligning with others to explore network-based business models,” says Patrick Gauthier, director of AHP Healthcare Solutions. “Alone, these agencies can be too small or fragmented, but there’s strength in numbers. There’s value in using collaboration to build a new model to survive and thrive in the new era of healthcare reform.”

Join us for an executive-level webinar where Patrick will describe how you can leverage other providers to benefit from economies of scale and offset administrative, financial, and operational challenges. He will explain how technology enables this collaboration while also allowing you retain your autonomy.

Webinar Tuesday, May 1 at 2pm EDT/1pm CDT: > REGISTER HERE

About the Presenter:
Patrick Gauthier, director of AHP Healthcare Solutions, is a senior consultant who, over the course of 22+ years in the behavioral health and managed care fields, has held various roles that enable him to take a broad perspective and make recommendations that balance the needs of payers, employers, providers, and consumers. For nearly twelve years, he served as Chief Operations Officer and Chief Marketing Officer for a national managed behavioral healthcare organization where he was responsible for the implementation of mental health parity in federal and state employee health plans as well as the privatization of SAMHSA Block Grants.

The only inevitability to the nation’s healthcare delivery system is change. We can debate the magnitude, timing and effects of that change, but the one fundamental commonality is we are in an era of change.

With that in mind, we invite you to join us on Tuesday, May 1 at 2pm EDT/1pm CDT to hear from Patrick Gauthier, one of the most dynamic and strategic thinkers on the subject of change and its implications for behavioral health.

This webinar will outline what strategies your behavioral health/human services agency should employ today to survive and thrive in this healthcare reform era.

> REGISTER HERE

Designed for executive level decision-makers, during this webinar you will learn about key points of competitive advantage that you should be employing today to maximize your success.

In this session Network-Based Business Models, we will explore options and how technology infrastructure and a common platform are central to the success of each.

We hope you will be able to join us on Tuesday, May 1 at 2pm EDT/1pm CDT. This webinar is presented free of charge.

About the Presenter:
Patrick Gauthier, director of AHP Healthcare Solutions, is a senior consultant who, over the course of 22+ years in the behavioral health and managed care fields, has held various roles that enable him to take a broad perspective and make recommendations that balance the needs of payers, employers, providers, and consumers. For nearly twelve years, he served as Chief Operations Officer and Chief Marketing Officer for a national managed behavioral healthcare organization where he was responsible for the implementation of mental health parity in federal and state employee health plans as well as the privatization of SAMHSA Block Grants.

His operations experience and expertise includes call utilization management, case management and provider contracting. His consulting background over the past seven years includes behavioral health policy and delivery system design, business modeling and marketing, information technology strategic planning, and quality improvement. His career has explored all aspects of building successful public-private partnerships in frontier, rural and urban settings around the country.