Substance Usage
Practices that treat substance usage have some unique needs. Since many are inpatient or IOP (intensive outpatient) facilities, they need an EHR that offers the functionality necessary to those specialties. Additionally, substance usage usually requires treatment by a doctor to address physical needs, in tandem with mental health treatment. This means that substance usage agencies typically need EMR features such as ePrescribing, Decision Support, and Lab Integration – and that they qualify for programs like Meaningful Use / MACRA.
This blog / resource center includes articles that pertain to substance usage practices from the following 3 angles:
- Functionality + features unique to this field of mental / behavioral health
- Compliance tools, such as guides to deciphering MACRA or ICD-10 code updates
- General articles about substance usage to support clinicians in delivering quality care
If you have any tools you’d like us to add, please send them to me. We at PIMSY EHR recognize that substance usage is a critical challenge for our nation, especially during this current period of opioid epidemic, and would like to assist providers in addressing it, whether or not they’re users of our software.
