Federal Telemedicine News

Simplifying Access to Addiction Treatment 

The Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation https://www.hazeldenbettyford.org is simplifying the distribution of addiction treatment and recovery support content with the Oracle Cerner EHR https://www.cerner.com and Xealth’s https://www.xealth.com digital therapeutic distribution platform.

The new system makes it easier for Hazelden Betty Ford clinicians to personalize care for their patients by assigning them digital content, including therapeutic education, exercises, and workshops accessible via the EHR’s patient portal. The new central repository for patients is going to be accessible during in-person or online treatment and at later touchpoints throughout their long term recovery process.

Hazelden Betty Ford a Oracle Cerner client, is the nation’s largest nonprofit system for addiction treatment, mental healthcare, recovery resources, and related prevention and education services. “We are committed to personalized care and empowering our patients with accessible and relevant resources at every stage of recovery,” said Deb Bauman, Chief Information Officer, VP of Technology Services at Hazelden Betty Ford.

As the nation’s leading nonprofit provider of comprehensive inpatient and outpatient addiction and mental healthcare for adults and youth. The Foundation has treatment centers and telehealth services nationwide as well as a network of collaborators throughout healthcare.

Caregivers at Hazelden Betty Ford are able to assign therapeutic content from within their EHR workflow in response to individual patient situations and in anticipation of individual patient needs.

In addition, care teams will gain insights into how patients are engaging with the content and how well each is performing via analytics which is organized in an intuitive dashboard and provides custom reporting.