From Idea To Reality: Using Outcomes Management & Meaningful Client Data To Transform Lives

Until recently, behavioral health organizations have been focused on transaction-based management. But with changes facilitated by healthcare and payment reform, there is a demand for more outcomes-based management. This session will present an overview of outcomes management frameworks and approaches. Some key steps will be outlined for implementing such a framework, including:

Assessing organizational readiness
Facilitating culture change
Utilizing data, especially outcomes, to sustain and drive innovation and program improvements

This session will include concrete examples from Astor Services for Children & Families on how they implemented an outcomes-based management system and the program improvements they realized . . .