MEDITECH
Behavioral Health Clinicals
product brief

MEDITECH's Behavioral Health Clinicals product helps organizations manage both the quality and cost of care provided to behavioral health clients. This fully-integrated client-focused system provides a continuum of mental health care, ranging from emergency crisis intervention, acute and long-term care hospitalization, short-term episodic outpatient treatment services, and longer-term rehabilitative outpatient mental health services.

The system integrates information across administrative, financial, and clinical departments, helping organizations function more effectively. Client information is always accurate and up-to-date, and administrators have immediate access to the clinical and financial statistics they need.

Behavioral health agencies are able to work cohesively with acute care hospitals, ambulatory facilities, and home health agencies in their health care network. All providers throughout the organization can access a client's psychiatric and medical condition when care is required. Staff can view all care that a client receives in an on-line medical record. Security and confidentiality features enable organizations to set access parameters to client data for each user within the organization.

Standard Clinical Features

Enterprise Medical Record
MEDITECH's Enterprise Medical Record (EMR) functionality includes a single client chart where treatment teams and care providers can view information from a single episode of care or for the entire medical record. Data from MEDITECH applications within the enterprise, as well as from other vendor information systems, is collected and stored in the EMR. Data displays are specific to your organization type, and for those enterprises that support an entire spectrum of care, users can select data displays customized for an acute, behavioral health, and long-term care setting. Other features include customization of patient lists, trending, graphs, confidential access and security, and highlighting of new information since last review.

Order Entry
MEDITECH's Order Entry functionality provides care providers with fast, accurate entry of orders from a single screen along with immediate access to patient information and test results. The functionality links patient locations to clinical departments in a powerful information network, therefore reducing the time required to identify a patient, and helping providers to enter, edit, or cancel patient orders quickly and with ease. Order Entry simplifies the ordering process through order sets, whereby one entry can create a group of orders for multiple departments. Series orders can be generated with user-defined limits. Caregivers can track the status of orders as well as retrieve clinical data. Reports and statistics can be generated for nursing areas and ancillary departments. An electronic signature feature is also available for organizations that require orders to be signed by an authorized provider. Order Entry is integrated with MEDITECH's Enterprise Medical Record and Patient Care System functionality.

Patient Care System
MEDITECH's Patient Care System (PCS) functionality is an electronic documentation system offering care providers interdisciplinary Plans of Care required for a patient-focused care delivery system. Automated worklists allow care providers to document care using a Windows® point-of-care device. PCS display panels provide the ability to observe up-to-date patient information. Dynamic electronic links to MEDITECH's Enterprise Medical Record functionality offer care providers another resource for their clinical decisions. These links support critical data review during the assessments and outcomes documentation process.

Standard Care Management Features

MEDITECH's Care Management functionality allows for the comprehensive coordination of a client’s care across an entire enterprise. The software provides the care coordinator with functionality for caseload management, enrollments, waitlist management, treatment planning, and assessments. All features are fully integrated with MEDITECH's Health Information Management, Revenue Cycle, Patient Care and Patient Safety, and Enterprise Medical Record applications.

Client Services Inquiry
MEDITECH's Client Service Inquiry feature allows users to monitor potential Continuing Care clients. It serves as an initial location where users can document referrals and enter incoming calls for required services. As a multi-purpose process screen, it offers the flexibility of entering minimal information on the inquiry or completing a full intake, which begins to process the client into the hospital's health care information system.

Clinical Eligibility Determination
MEDITECH's Eligibility feature allows for quick and accurate collection of demographic and historical information on potential clients, in order to perform need determinations. The system allows a user to monitor the referral, application, and approval process to facilitate informed decisions on a person's eligibility to receive requested services.

Service Planning
The Care Management functionality facilitates the documenting of functional assessments, the processing of individual service plans for treatment, and the enrollment into identified programs. Care coordinators can identify program specialties, such as a certain language, to best meet the needs of the client.

Program Management
Once a client has been enrolled, the Care Management functionality allows program clinicians to track the client’s progress via notes and outcomes. All information is readily available via comprehensive inquiry and history displays.

Waitlist Management
If a program or service is at capacity, the Care Manager’s waitlist functions allow you to manage their waitlist process effectively. This functionality enables a user to break down programs by various criteria in order to get an accurate measure of the capacity of a facility. In addition to enhancing the capacities of programs, a worksheet will be created to assist in waitlist management. This worksheet will display user-defined programs and give the waitlist coordinator a snapshot of what is available in multiple facilities. Users can easily view all clients on each of the waitlists. Once space is available in a facility, the Care Manager’s waitlist functions quickly enrolls the client into the necessary programs.

Desktop Workload Management
MEDITECH’s Desktop is a tool that care coordinators can use to organize their work. The Desktop feature alerts users to date sensitive events such as eligibility treatment plan reviews, court appearances, and user scheduled events. Additionally, it is integrated with our Risk Management application and provides alerts for critical incidents, which may affect a client’s treatment.

For more information about us, contact a MEDITECH Marketing Representative.

MEDITECH
Medical Information Technology, Inc.
MEDITECH Circle
Westwood, MA 02090
781-821-3000
www.meditech.com