JCAHO mental health care network accreditation as a performance improvement project

1997 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 359-363
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Performance Improvement ◽  
Improvement Project ◽  
Care Network ◽  
Health Care Network ◽  
A Performance

scholarly journals The Quality Mental Health Care Network: A roadmap to improving quality mental healthcare in Canada

2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 100-106
Author(s):  
Emily J. Follwell ◽  
Siri Chunduri ◽  
Claire Samuelson-Kiraly ◽  
Nicholas Watters ◽  
Jonathan I. Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Mental Healthcare ◽  
Care Network ◽  
Key Informant ◽  
Health Care Network

Although there are numerous quality of care frameworks, little attention has been given to the essential concepts that encompass quality mental healthcare. HealthCare CAN and the Mental Health Commission of Canada co-lead the Quality Mental Health Care Network (QMHCN), which has developed a quality mental healthcare framework, building on existing provincial, national, and international frameworks. HealthCare CAN conducted an environmental scan, key informant interviews, and focus groups with individuals with lived experiences to develop the framework. This article outlines the findings from this scan, interviews and focus groups.

scholarly journals An eHealth Platform for the Support of a Brazilian Regional Network of Mental Health Care (eHealth-Interop): Development of an Interoperability Platform for Mental Care Integration

10.2196/10129 ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. e10129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Newton Shydeo Brandão Miyoshi ◽  
João Mazzoncini De Azevedo-Marques ◽  
Domingos Alves ◽  
Paulo Mazzoncini De Azevedo-Marques
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Data Quality ◽  
Community Services ◽  
Quality Analysis ◽  
Regional Network ◽  
Care Network ◽  
Health Care Network

Background The electronic exchange of health-related data can support different professionals and services to act in a more coordinated and transparent manner and make the management of health service networks more efficient. Although mental health care is one of the areas that can benefit from a secure health information exchange (HIE), as it usually involves long-term and multiprofessional care, there are few published studies on this topic, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. Objective The aim of this study was to design, implement, and evaluate an electronic health (eHealth) platform that allows the technical and informational support of a Brazilian regional network of mental health care. This solution was to enable HIE, improve data quality, and identify and monitor patients over time and in different services. Methods The proposed platform is based on client-server architecture to be deployed on the Web following a Web services communication model. The interoperability information model was based on international and Brazilian health standards. To test platform usage, we have utilized the case of the mental health care network of the XIII Regional Health Department of the São Paulo state, Brazil. Data were extracted from 5 different sources, involving 26 municipalities, and included national demographic data, data from primary health care, data from requests for psychiatric hospitalizations performed by community services, and data obtained from 2 psychiatric hospitals about hospitalizations. Data quality metrics such as accuracy and completeness were evaluated to test the proposed solution. Results The eHealth-Interop integration platform was designed, developed, and tested. It contains a built-in terminology server and a record linkage module to support patients’ identification and deduplication. The proposed interoperability environment was able to integrate information in the mental health care network case with the support of 5 international and national terminologies. In total, 27,353 records containing demographic and clinical data were integrated into eHealth-Interop. Of these records, 34.91% (9548/27,353) were identified as patients who were present in more than 1 data source with different levels of accuracy and completeness. The data quality analysis was performed on 26 demographic attributes for each integrable patient record, totaling 248,248 comparisons. In general, it was possible to achieve an improvement of 18.40% (45,678/248,248) in completeness and 1.10% (2731/248,248) in syntactic accuracy over the test dataset after integration and deduplication. Conclusions The proposed platform established an eHealth solution to fill the gap in the availability and quality of information within a network of health services to improve the continuity of care and the health services management. It has been successfully applied in the context of mental health care and is flexible to be tested in other areas of care.

scholarly journals An eHealth Platform for the Support of a Brazilian Regional Network of Mental Health Care (eHealth-Interop): Development of an Interoperability Platform for Mental Care Integration (Preprint)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Newton Shydeo Brandão Miyoshi ◽  
João Mazzoncini De Azevedo-Marques ◽  
Domingos Alves ◽  
Paulo Mazzoncini De Azevedo-Marques
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Data Quality ◽  
Community Services ◽  
Quality Analysis ◽  
Regional Network ◽  
Care Network ◽  
Health Care Network

BACKGROUND The electronic exchange of health-related data can support different professionals and services to act in a more coordinated and transparent manner and make the management of health service networks more efficient. Although mental health care is one of the areas that can benefit from a secure health information exchange (HIE), as it usually involves long-term and multiprofessional care, there are few published studies on this topic, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to design, implement, and evaluate an electronic health (eHealth) platform that allows the technical and informational support of a Brazilian regional network of mental health care. This solution was to enable HIE, improve data quality, and identify and monitor patients over time and in different services. METHODS The proposed platform is based on client-server architecture to be deployed on the Web following a Web services communication model. The interoperability information model was based on international and Brazilian health standards. To test platform usage, we have utilized the case of the mental health care network of the XIII Regional Health Department of the São Paulo state, Brazil. Data were extracted from 5 different sources, involving 26 municipalities, and included national demographic data, data from primary health care, data from requests for psychiatric hospitalizations performed by community services, and data obtained from 2 psychiatric hospitals about hospitalizations. Data quality metrics such as accuracy and completeness were evaluated to test the proposed solution. RESULTS The eHealth-Interop integration platform was designed, developed, and tested. It contains a built-in terminology server and a record linkage module to support patients’ identification and deduplication. The proposed interoperability environment was able to integrate information in the mental health care network case with the support of 5 international and national terminologies. In total, 27,353 records containing demographic and clinical data were integrated into eHealth-Interop. Of these records, 34.91% (9548/27,353) were identified as patients who were present in more than 1 data source with different levels of accuracy and completeness. The data quality analysis was performed on 26 demographic attributes for each integrable patient record, totaling 248,248 comparisons. In general, it was possible to achieve an improvement of 18.40% (45,678/248,248) in completeness and 1.10% (2731/248,248) in syntactic accuracy over the test dataset after integration and deduplication. CONCLUSIONS The proposed platform established an eHealth solution to fill the gap in the availability and quality of information within a network of health services to improve the continuity of care and the health services management. It has been successfully applied in the context of mental health care and is flexible to be tested in other areas of care.

scholarly journals MENTAL HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE HEALTH CARE NETWORK

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mislene Beza Gordo Sarzana ◽  
Greice Lessa ◽  
Lucas Corrêa Preis ◽  
Joelma Patricio da Luz Perin ◽  
Selma Regina de Andrade ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Care Management ◽  
Health Care Management ◽  
Care Network ◽  
Health Care Network

scholarly journals The network of mental health care from the family health strategy service

2014 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 27-32
Author(s):  
Christine Wetzel ◽  
Leandro Barbosa de Pinho ◽  
Agnes Olschowsky ◽  
Ariane da Cruz Guedes ◽  
Marcio Wagner Camatta ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Family Health ◽  
Daily Routine ◽  
Care Network ◽  
Health Strategy ◽  
The Family ◽  
Health Care Network ◽  
Family Health Strategy

The Family Health Strategy Service (FHSS) is an important ally in the mental health system, contributing to the completeness and effectiveness of care. This study aimed to discuss the mental health care network as compared to the daily routine of an FHSS. It is an evaluative study with a qualitative methodological approach. It was developed in an FHSS in Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil. Data was collected between July and December of 2010 through interviews with 16 workers and ten relatives. We identified important resources in primary health care, such as partnerships with academia. However, the constitution of this care is still based on specialty, following the logic of patient referral. Our intention for this study was to contribute to the operationalization of the mental health care network, consolidating the partnership with the FHSS and developing activities in the territorial space, raising awareness, demystifying health care service in the area, and countering the perception that it is uniquely specialized.

Technology and Mental Health Care for Veterans: A Quality Improvement Project

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rayna Sanghvi ◽  
Annika M. Miyamoto ◽  
Brandy Smith ◽  
Craig Rosen ◽  
Pearl A. McGee-Vincent
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Quality Improvement ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Quality Improvement Project ◽  
Improvement Project

A Tribute to the Late William J. Curran

1996 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 274-275
Author(s):  
O. Lawrence ◽  
J.D. Gostin
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Harvard University ◽  
Legal Medicine ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
International Institute ◽  
University Professor

In the summer of 1979, a group of experts on law, medicine, and ethics assembled in Siracusa, Sicily, under the auspices of the International Commission of Jurists and the International Institute of Higher Studies in Criminal Science, to draft guidelines on the rights of persons with mental illness. Sitting across the table from me was a quiet, proud man of distinctive intelligence, William J. Curran, Frances Glessner Lee Professor of Legal Medicine at Harvard University. Professor Curran was one of the principal drafters of those guidelines. Many years later in 1991, after several subsequent re-drafts by United Nations (U.N.) Rapporteur Erica-Irene Daes, the text was adopted by the U.N. General Assembly as the Principles for the Protection of Persons with Mental Illness and for the Improvement of Mental Health Care. This was the kind of remarkable achievement in the field of law and medicine that Professor Curran repeated throughout his distinguished career.

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