Treatment plans are the foundation of effective behavioral healthcare, maintaining structure and fostering collaboration among care teams. But you also need a few key ingredients, such as personalization, clinical insight, and a full understanding of each patient’s needs. Electronic health record (EHR) data puts it all together.
Your EHR is valuable beyond administrative functions. Use it to surface valuable information—such as detailed patient histories and evidence-based recommendations—to build personalized treatment plans that lead to better outcomes. Explore the value of EHR data for your behavioral organization and why the solution you choose shouldn’t fit a cookie-cutter mold.
What's the big deal about EHR data?
Behavioral health EHRs offer the data to fuel mental health treatment plans and support the Golden Thread, from intake to discharge. With access to advanced tools inside a robust EHR, your organization can streamline the way it collects, accesses, and analyzes crucial information.
Centralized data provides a comprehensive view of patients
Give your team the tools to better understand what’s going on with each patient. Comprehensive EHR data makes it easier to detect which patients face the highest risks of relapse, emergency, or crisis, so you can adjust their treatment plans to prevent these worst-case scenarios. Plus, you can leverage reporting for deeper insights and more informed decision-making.
EHR data improves mental health treatment plans
Thanks to real-time monitoring, clinicians can promptly identify and address gaps in treatment. Make small adjustments on the fly or more robust changes to patients’ mental health treatment plans, assessing what is or isn’t working.
EHR data is critical for care delivery, helping to:
- Identify trends: Pinpoint the most successful treatment methods and monitor population health to develop new options.
- Streamline processes: Use analytics to streamline processes and optimize workflows—saving time and money and improving outcomes.
How are behavioral health EHRs unique?
Too many vendors try to push catchall solutions, but the ideal EHR for a behavioral health facility is inherently different from software designed for an emergency department. Behavioral health organizations require special consideration for compliance, long-term care coordination and documentation, and specialized workflows.
Instead of off-the-shelf software, invest in an EHR that’s tailor-made for your use case—one that:
- Includes behavioral health templates and documents
- Accommodates narrative information that patients share during sessions
- Provides assessment tools to gather and measure information against benchmarks
Not just any behavioral health EHR will do
Capture all the information you need and streamline both processes and care delivery without redundancies or gaps. Dedicated behavioral health EHRs built on codified data offer a unified source of truth so you don’t have to document elsewhere. You can avoid handwritten notes and workarounds and create and modify reports for your specific needs.
Maintain a backbone of interoperability
Calls can be missed, and faxes can be lost, but your EHR is constant. Choose a modern behavioral health EHR that ensures seamless sharing of data across departments and organizations to improve care delivery at every step.
Adopting a behavioral health EHR built on modern standards for interoperability— from adhering to USCDI standards to incorporating HL7 FHIR APIs and cloud-based technology—supports the continuum of care.
Transform your behavioral health treatment plans with Juno EHR
Time and time again, behavioral health organizations have tried to make do with generic EHRs that don’t operate the way they do, leaving clinicians to spin their wheels. Workarounds slow down administration and care delivery, while vital information slips through the cracks instead of driving effective mental health treatment plans.
Juno EHR for Behavioral Health is purpose-built for mental health care settings with the tools you need to collect, review, and analyze data—and render effective care.
- Chart review helps clinicians track medical conditions and take action to improve patient care, hospital performance, and compliance.
- 400+ prebuilt behavioral health templates plug and play into your workflows, and even more are available to configure to your needs.
- Mental health treatment plans auto-populate diagnosis and medication data and allow core team members to add assessments and documentation.
