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Last month, New Jersey legislators announced they were committing $6 million to support behavioral health providers in the implementation of electronic health records in their facilities and connection to other health care providers. This New Jersey Health Information Network (NJHIN)…
Related: Senate Passes Opioid Crisis Response Act – Here's What's in It We wrote in the fall about the U.S. House of Representatives' SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act, or H.R.6. H.R.6 would go on to become the Opioid Crisis…
Walmart announced recently that they will require all of their pharmacies (more than 4,000) to use e-prescribing of controlled substances when prescribing opioids, effective January 1, 2020. Put differently, any healthcare organization whose patients use a Walmart pharmacy must use…
Many in the behavioral health community have found themselves searching for a new EHR in 2019. Whether they're affected by the increased workload of the opioid epidemic and the Opioid Crisis Response Act, the concern of meeting HIPAA requirements due…
Why We Dedicated Ourselves to Make a Better EHR In spring 2019, Fortune and Kaiser Health News joint-published a long-form investigative article titled "Death by a Thousand Clicks: Where Electronic Health Records Went Wrong." The 9,000-word critique on the medical…
In mid-March, the FDA approved the postpartum depression drug brexanolone, providing an option to millions of women who suffer from postpartum depression. Brexanolone is the first federally-approved drug of its kind to be designed specifically to treat postpartum depression. The…
At a time when most news about the opioid crisis seems to be bad, a recent study may be a cause for hope. The January 2019 study by the Center for Disease Control (CDC) indicates that opioid overdose deaths in…
In the digital era, it is crucial for behavioral health organizations to track their outcomes. Measuring outcomes holds facilities accountable and allows them to improve, benefiting clinicians and patients alike. Major accreditation agencies are recognizing the importance of outcome measurement…
AZZLY joins the Behavioral Health Association of Providers (BHAP) in asking you to support the behavioral health industry by signing this petition. This petition will be delivered to President Trump, the Senate, and the House of Representatives and would urge…
If you’re reading this post, you likely already know the seriousness of the opioid epidemic currently in the United States. The opioid epidemic is the largest the U.S. has faced in decades, arguably since the emergence of AIDS. Opioid use…
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