- Overview
   - Foundation for PsyberCare
   
- What PC Measures
   - Development Objectives
   - Benefits
   - Differentiators
   - System Components


Benefits

PsyberCare-CD is a highly customizable system designed to meet the needs of a wide range of treatment organizations and stakeholders, leading to improved outcomes for patients, a more efficient use of resources and a reduction in relapse rates.

Patients

• Ensures that a patient is receiving the most appropriate and effective treatment

• Facilitates patient involvement in treatment, providing incentives for patients to continue modifying recovery strategies to better achieve treatment goals.

• Patients are more satisfied with the treatment process and its outcomes

Counselors

• Receive support for treatment planning and monitoring

• Can discuss reports with patients to motivate and to strengthen rapport/”bond”

• Helped to determine whether treatment is “working”

• Patient severity indicators, strengths, critical symptoms, progress and satisfaction with treatment are all provided on a real-time, clinically actionable report

• May have less paperwork due to the availability of reports for the clinical record

• Patients at high risk of relapse or dropout are identified

• Data quality indicators help clinicians to know whether data is reliable

Office Staff

• Use of system software requires little training

• Experience a negligible increase in their work load

• Are provided with software tools for the efficient management of data collection

• Easily integrated into the daily routine of an organization

Program managers/administrators

• Are provided with data on patient progress, targeting of services, and demographics summarized in aggregate reports

• Can use reports for counselor training/development or for supervision. Clinical supervisors can quickly review their supervisee’s caseloads to identify problematic cases for review

• Obtain standardized, reliable, severity adjusted outcomes data

• Helped to identify counselor’s strengths and weaknesses (e.g., for staff development, differential referral)

• Are provided with data useful for accreditation, clinical supervision, identifying “best practice” models, and facilitating utilization review

• May use the system as the foundation for meaningful CQI initiatives

Payers

• Can enhance and reduce the staff time required for utilization review

• Receive standardized and clinically relevant information about program performance

• Are able to document quality of the care they purchase

 
 
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