The Effect of Treatment for Anxiety/Depression on Healthcare Costs of Patients with Chronic Medical Conditions

Read this brief written by Steve Melek, Consulting Actuary of Milliman, Inc., discussing their current research of concurrent physical and mental illness and the relevance of integrated physical and mental health care. 

The Effect of Treatment for Anxiety

The National Council is hosting a live Webinar entitled, Evaluating Performance Management Within Your Organization, on Tuesday, July 29, 2008, 2:00pm.  The Webinar is being presented by Paul Lefkovitz, President of Behavioral Pathway Systems.  This could be an interesting resource for conversation.

Read the Invitation Here

Upcoming meeting of the Colorado Association for Infant Mental Health

Dear Colleagues,

We hope that you are having an enjoyable summer.

This is a reminder that our next meeting will be held on Tuesday, August 14. Stacey Bromberg, Ph.D., will be presenting on "Infant Mental Health in Residential Substance Abuse Treatment." The meeting will begin at 6:00PM in the Long’s Peak Conference Room at Children’s Hospital. Light refreshments will be served. Admission is free for CoAIMH members. The fee for nonmembers is $10.

We look forward to seeing you there,

Lorraine, Ayelet, Kelly and Joy

Toolkits to Promote Cultural Proficiency is a training program designed to increase the cultural proficiency of health care providers.  We are funded to develop and implemement this training over the next two years with a grant from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Office of Health Disparities.

The training program entails two courses:  Introduction to Cultural Proficiency for Care Providers and One Day Intensive Training on Cultural Proficiency for Care Providers.  Click here to view a brochure on the offerings. 

Advancing Health IT and Interoperability. 
Building Capacity for Health IT, Health Information Exchange & Interoperability
April 13th, 2007

The concept of “building capacity”provides guidance around and information on the models, technologies, operations, standards and policies for health organizations – either state, federal orprivately owned – to deliver healthcare and health information in a technology-basedformat. It enables these organizations to develop the “capacity” to operate within a technology-enabled structure and ideally provide more accessible, lower cost, and higher quality healthcare.

Click here to view the detailed brochure for the symposium.

On February 15th, Diane Zandin from HCPF and Carol from ACS hosted a training for the new requirements regarding Iinjectible medication and billing.  If you were unable to attend, or would like the documents that were supplied at the training, click here for a complete list with links.

Also, contact CBHC if you have questions or need more information.