Healthcare costs for people diagnosed with mental illness and common chronic health conditions are 75 percent higher than for those without a mental health diagnosis according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). This is because there’s often a lack of coordination between multiple care providers, different state policies and diverse payment structures which can result in poor health outcomes and higher costs across health systems. To address the problem behavioral health analytics provider ODH and IBM Watson Health are announcing the launch of Mentrics, a population health management platform designed to help care organizations transform the quality… [Continue Reading]
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