Polaris Receives $1 Million Grant to Expand College Outcomes Management System

OPEN MINDS Weekly News Wire Mental Health & Chemical Dependency Services On June 9, 2010, Polaris Health Directions (Polaris) announced it had been awarded a three-year, $1 million grant by the National Institute for Drug Abuse (NIDA) to further develop its College Outcomes Management System (COMS). COMS is an automated behavioral health assessment that is intended to integrate into existing electronic health record systems, and designed to detect psychosocial problems and substance abuse among students while supporting clinical decision making and tracking students’ treatment progress. Polaris indicated that it planned to use the funding to field test an abbreviated . . .