Regardless of whether you’re researching EMR options for ambulatory detoxification, clinically managed residential detoxification, medically monitored inpatient detoxification or medically managed intensive inpatient detoxification, your choice of software has outsized implications for the success of your facility. 

Detox moves quickly. It’s clinically and medically demanding and it requires an EMR that can keep up with the fast pace while providing an easy, intuitive interface for both patient and provider. Detox is the first step in what often becomes a long patient journey to recovery. Your EMR needs to transition from evaluation, to stabilization, and, finally, discharge and/or level of care transition without missing a beat. 

Today, we will look at three major considerations most detox facilities make when comparing EHRs (also called EMRs) and examine the ways in which Behave Health sets the industry standard in all three categories. 

Medically Supervised Detox Needs an EMR That Can Handle Clinical Operations and Medical Operations 

How do your medical director, registered nurses and medical techs feel about your current EHR?

A poorly utilized, clunky, frustrating EHR can have catastrophic consequences for clinical care, staff morale and even employee turnover and retention levels, especially in a medical detox setting where good staff can be particularly difficult to retain. 

A good medical detox EHR supports your clinician’s efficiency while providing an unobtrusive scaffolding to support healthy revenue cycles, easy billing and conflict-free claims processing. A good medical detox EHR also attracts and retains happy clinicians, which helps you maintain safe staffing levels.  

Behave Health makes short work of the medical assessments, physician’s orders, and nursing notes that are the baseline workflows of detox facilities. Our clinical suite includes low-friction, easy-to-use workflows for clinical assessments, treatment planning and progress reviews. Behave Health makes it simple for both the clinical and medical teams to communicate and cooperate on patient care, improving patient outcomes and increasing overall patient safety.

Medically Managed Detox Facilities Require Top Notch Medication Management and Med Pass Workflows 

Medically managed withdrawal frequently involves medication management of some kind. For patients who are detoxing from benzodiazepines, alcohol or opioids, tapering is often the safest and most comfortable option for beginning the journey to addiction recovery.  Even in situations where tapering is not used, medically assisted treatment is sometimes started at the medical detox level of care. In nearly all situations, at least some form of medication is prescribed to assist patients with the unpleasant physical side effects of withdrawal. 

Behave Health offers a stellar medication management platform with robust prescribing and med pass workflow support. Full integration with DrFirst, a premiere e-prescribing platform, means that clinicians can skip many of the inefficient steps involved in traditional prescribing. Clinicians also appreciate our point-of-care drug testing and easy lab order functionality. 

Finally, our med pass workflows keep med passes as painless and accurate as possible, while maintaining a high fidelity medication inventory. We’ve worked with behavioral healthcare providers to eliminate redundancies and keep the number of “clicks” to a minimum so your staff can focus on providing excellent patient care. 

Medical Detox Moves Quickly - Your EHR Should, Too

Medically managed detox can be a fun and exciting work environment, but it can be a chaotic and highly “eventful” department to manage, as well. 

Due to the nature of their condition, patients going through acute medically managed withdrawal can be unpredictable, messy, and/or highly volatile. When patients have a dual diagnosis, their care can be even more complicated. With so much of your staff’s energy going into managing patient care, it’s important that your EHR pulls its weight. A good medically managed detox EHR should help your staff maintain order, foster easy inter- and intra-department communication and generate a sense of reliable consistency from shift to shift. 

To that end, Behave Health offers many features to help tame the chaos at your medical detox facility.

We offer: 

• Simple, straight-forward bed management that allows intake departments and clinical departments to quickly scan for open beds and soon-to-be-open beds.

• Easy-to-track incident notes and reports that help capture any unusual events or liabilities that may occur within a detox setting.

• Instant eVOBs to assist with easy admissions and quick intake timelines.

• Point-of-care drug testing and reporting to inform clinical decision making and evaluation.

• “Idiot-proof” medication inventories to ensure the security and integrity of any on-site medications.

• And so much more 

Is Your Medical Detox Facility Ready to Try Behave Health? We’re Here to Help.

Behave Health is committed to making it easier - and more profitable - to operate evidence-based, results-focused addiction treatment centers.

Our all-in-one app puts clinical, administration, staff, admissions, alumni, residents, treatment plans, billing, insurance authorizations and more - all at your fingertips.

Get your free trial started today and see why more addiction treatment centers prefer Behave Health.

PS. Just getting started with behavioral health? Need help with certification, too? Behave Health can also help direct you to the right resources for help with Licensing or Accreditation by either The Joint Commission or CARF. Mention to your product specialist that you’re interested in this service after you start your free trial!