BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--athenahealth, a leading provider of network-enabled software and services for health care practices and systems nationwide, today announced athenaOne for Behavioral Health, uniquely developed to help Behavioral Health providers deliver coordinated, meaningful, and holistic patient care. By seamlessly integrating Behavioral Health and Primary Care into one solution, behavioral health practices can ensure that the patient is at the center of their care and that behavioral health plays its essential role in whole health. This new offering joins athenahealth’s growing suite of specialty solutions, including athenaOne for Women’s Health and athenaOne for Urgent Care, which were announced earlier this year.
Demand for behavioral health services has been growing tremendously in recent years and this, combined with low provider availability creates unique challenges for providers across care settings. Additionally, behavioral health providers are faced with a combination of factors that can make it difficult to deliver coordinated, holistic care for patients, including documentation and regulatory requirements, as well as financial barriers due to low reimbursement rates. athenaOne for Behavioral health offers an ONC HIT certified comprehensive EHR, patient engagement, and practice and revenue cycle management solution that delivers tailored workflows, clinical content, and embedded services that help solve these challenges and ensure providers can refocus their attention on delivering deeply personal and meaningful care.
“Behavioral health providers strive to provide comprehensive, meaningful care but are often faced with a perfect storm of challenges that can get in the way of delivering care that achieves desired health outcomes,” said Chad Dodd, vice president of product management at athenahealth. “That is what is so exciting about athenaOne for Behavioral Health, as it is designed to meet the unique needs of behavioral health providers and help alleviate the challenges these providers face by providing comprehensive treatment plans, group therapy capabilities, tailorable session documentation, a privacy toolkit, patient engagement tools, and much more. With this industry-leading new solution, Behavioral Health, providers will now be able to stay connected with their patients and ensure the delivery of high-quality, personalized care.”
Reduce Administrative Burden and Increase Efficiencies
Behavioral health providers face heavy administrative burdens due to the nature of behavioral health visits that require custom treatment plans specific to individual patients, care team alignment, as well as session documentation across both individual and group therapy. athenaOne for Behavioral Health provides practices with configurable workflows and clinical content specific to behavioral health, built-in, customizable, pre-made templates to streamline treatment plans, session documentation support at the individual and group therapy level, as well as reporting tools. With limited time between patient visits, these capabilities help to reduce time spent on administrative tasks during and between patient encounters.
Enhance Care Coordination
Behavioral health providers often manage patients across various care settings, and care coordination is a significant challenge that hinders their ability to provide meaningful, connected care for their patients. athenaOne for Behavioral Health supports a variety of care models including outpatient behavioral health practices, intensive outpatient programs (IOPs), and partial hospitalization programs (PHPs). With athenahealth’s industry leading interoperability capabilities, athenaOne for Behavioral health ensures that relevant patient data from across the healthcare ecosystem is seamlessly incorporated into the clinical workflow in a single view, giving providers a differentiated experience of a complete picture of their patients’ health, which is so important to drive optimal outcomes for behavioral health care.
Improve Patient Engagement
With Behavioral Health, patients’ outcomes are highly dependent on the trust they have with their providers and how engaged they are in their own care. athenaOne for Behavioral Health includes patient engagement tools that simplify the practice of care for providers and give patients' greater flexibility and control over their care, including athenaTelehealth, a solution that enables providers to easily conduct telehealth visits that comply with HIPAA and seamlessly facilitate secure remote therapy sessions. Additionally, the new solution further empowers patients to manage their own treatment by giving them the ability to self-schedule appointments and easily communicate with providers and staff before and after a scheduled appointment.
Learn more about the new behavioral health solution and current functionality.
About athenahealth, Inc.
athenahealth strives to cure complexity and simplify the practice of healthcare. Our innovative technology includes electronic health records, revenue cycle management, and patient engagement solutions that help healthcare providers, administrators, and practices eliminate friction for patients while getting paid efficiently. athenahealth partners with practices with purpose-built software backed by expertise to produce the insights needed to drive better clinical and financial outcomes. We’re inspired by our vision to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all. Learn more at athenahealth.com.
