Healthcare Systems

Healthcare professionals increasingly recognize that emotional needs of patients have a profound effect on their medical treatment. Undetected depression and anxiety, chemical dependency as well as a host of often unspoken issues all affect clinical outcomes. The need to better manage depression in cardiac care, oncology and other chronic disease states is well established. The HEDIS requirements specifically target depression management when scoring a healthcare system.

These psychological matters also have a major impact on healthcare service utilization as a patient's perceived needs for appointments is often driven not by the medical diagnosis, but by underlying emotional issues. The integration of psychological services with more traditional medical services is challenging both medical and psychiatric professionals to find care models and tools which will help to bring the disciplines together.

Polaris Health Directions is positioned and focused to assist healthcare organizations attain this goal.

Polaris systems offer:

• Easy to use automated screening, assessing and monitoring systems to detect depression, anxiety in busy medical settings
• Clinical rule out information for bereavement, bipolar disorder, and chemical dependency is clearly displayed to save physician time and complete the clinical assessment
• Implementation expertise backed by easy to use software features for practical use
• Instruments that have passed rigorous scientific review from NIH