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Collaboration Care is Designed for:
- Primary care practices that are interested in integrating behavioral health specialists into their practice but don’t have the space, money, time or expertise to do so
- Practices that already have an integrated behavioral health clinician but don’t have the capacity to do behavioral health coaching, track outcomes and provide counseling for the full range of behavioral health problems they see
- Specialty care practices that appreciate the impact of behavioral health problems on their patients’ outcomes and want help to address these issues
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Address the Needs of Patients and Providers
- Developed to address the needs, perceptions and preferences of primary care patients by experts in the management of behavioral health problems in primary care.
- Manage all of the common adult behavioral health problems seen in primary care
- Offer behavioral health solutions that are suitable for all adult patients in your practice
- Easy to implement, free and can generate revenue for your practice
CollaborationCare has been designed for primary care practices that:
- Are interested in integrating behavioral health specialists into their practice but don’t have the space, money, time or expertise to do so
- Already have an integrated behavioral health clinician but don’t have the capacity to do behavioral health coaching, track outcomes and provide counseling for the full range of behavioral health problems they see.
Virtual HealthCare
Integrate virtual behavioral health into your primary care practice.
Collaboration Care Consists of:
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Collaborative Care Programs
These programs are based on the Collaborative Care Model for primary care patients with a mood or anxiety disorder. The Collaborative Care Model has been shown to improve outcomes, control costs and increase patient satisfaction. Our programs have several unique features: all of our behavioral health coaches are licensed therapists, these coaches use semi-structured scripts to reliably provide care management as well as therapy. Since no single type of therapy works for all patients or in all situations, our scripts contain a wide variety of evidence-based approaches and tools. This enables patients to find the solutions that work best for them.
Our programs consist of:
- Monthly telephonic or video calls with a coach (licensed therapist)
- Weekly structured online patient assessments, with review and response from the patient’s coach
- Psychiatric consultations for complex patients and those who are not improving as expected
- Patients receive online interactive patient self-management programs, care plans and outcome data
- Monthly outcomes monitoring for up to 1 year
- Additional booster sessions for patients who have begun to relapse after they have completed the program
- Monthly medical provider feedback reports which can be pushed into their EMR
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Teletherapy Programs
These 10 session programs are available for patients with a mood or anxiety disorder as well as for those who want to specifically address any of the following additional behavioral health problems:
- Stress
- Loneliness
- Loss & grief
- Insomnia
- Coping with chronic disease
- Chronic Pain
- At risk alcohol and drug use
- Cigarette smoking
- Obesity or Overweight
- Sedentary lifestyle
- Medication non-adherence
The mood and anxiety disorder teletherapy programs can be offered in conjunction with or instead of our Collaborative Care programs. Patients in these programs can select the behavioral health problems they feel will be most helpful for them to work on.
In all of our teletherapy programs, outcomes are monitored monthly for up to 1 year and medical providers and patients receive feedback after each outcome evaluation. Booster sessions can be provided to patients who have begun to relapse after they have completed their program.
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Patient Self-Management Programs
Online interactive patient self-management programs have been created for each of the behavioral health problems that we address. They are provided as part of the Collaborative Care and Teletherapy programs.
The self management programs can also be offered as stand-alone programs or with weekly online support and guidance from a behavioral health coach.
Collaboration Care can:
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Saves you and your staff time
- Screening patients for depression and other behavioral health problems
- Performing comprehensive assessments on those who screen positive
- Engaging patients in a shared decision making process to determine their informed management preferences
- Providing behavioral health coaching and counseling
- Consulting with a psychiatrist on complex patients and those who are not improving as expected
- Increasing access to teletherapy
- Sending regular PCP feedback reports which can be pushed into your EMR
- Tracking Outcomes
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Generate revenue for PCP practices.
Collaboration Care is paid for by revenue from a variety codes that most PCPs are not currently billing for. These codes are covered by Medicare, most commercial payers and a growing number of state Medicaid programs. Depending on the code, this new revenue will be split with the primary care practice.
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Improve Patient Outcomes.
Collaboration Care is based on five evidence based approaches to managing common behavioral health problems in Primary Care. These include:
- The Collaborative Care Model
- Motivational Interviewing
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- The Stanford Chronic Disease Self-Management Program
Each of these approaches have been shown to improve a variety of clinical outcomes in Primary Care patients with behavioral health problems.
Quality improvement is baked into all of our programs. Patients evaluate every session and condition specific patient outcomes are monitored monthly. Aggregated outcome data will be shared with all of our partners. Our therapists are encouraged to offer comments and suggestions on all of our content and scripts.
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Proven Results
Our behavioral health coaches are able to provide an innovative approach to short-term teletherapy which enables patients to choose the types of issues they feel will be most helpful for them to work on from a selection of 13 behavioral health problems. We have shown that this patient-centered multi-modular therapy program appears to be more effective than a usual care control group of depressed primary care patients as well as those who received therapy which focused on just behavioral activation.
Collaboration Health
Services
We offer personalized patient programs that increase practice revenue.
Improve Outcomes for Your Patients
Use a proven, patient-centered, multi-modal teletherapy.
Save Time Through Care Coordination
Full spectrum of behavioral health care, integrated with your EHR
Designed for the Primary Care Practice
Designed by experts to meet the unique needs of the primary care patient
It's Personal
Inspired by the Collaborative Care Model.
Designed by mental health specialists. Backed by cutting-edge technology.
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Our behavioral health coaches can also provide an innovative approach to short-term teletherapy which enables patients to choose the types of issues they feel will be most helpful for them to work on from a selection of 10 therapy modules. We have shown that this patient-centered multi-modular therapy program appears to be more effective than a usual care control group of depressed primary care patients as well as those who received therapy which focused on just behavioral activation.
About Us.
David Brody
Chief Medical Officer
Los Angeles Customer
Jeanette Waxmonsky Ph.D.
Clinical Psychologist, Advisory Board Member
Los Angeles Customer
Kirstan Vandersluis
Founder & CEO, Connetix Health
Los Angeles Customer
Catherine Le Roi
Los Angeles Customer
Pamela DeBellis
Los Angeles Customer
Team
Kirstan Vandersluis
Kirstan Vandersluis, is the Founder and CEO of Connetix Health, the company supplying the technology solution for CollaborationCare. He is a longtime digital health solutions and interoperability expert, holds computer science degrees from the University of Michigan and University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, and earned a certificate in Health Informatics from Johns Hopkins University. Kirstan has been a principal supplier of solutions for healthcare and digital health to organizations including Kaiser Permanente, University of Michigan Health Services, HealthRx, The Center for Medical Interoperability, Emergency Medicine Risk Management, and others. Kirstan has patented technologies and has patents pending in data management, interoperability, and digital health, and brings an innovative approach to collaborative care, patient activation, and integrated behavioral healthcare.
David Brody
David is a General Internist who has been the Chief of General Internal Medicine and a Professor of Medicine at several medical schools. He has published numerous papers on the management of mental health problems in primary care and was an editor of Psychiatry for Primary Care Physicians (editions 1 and 2) published by the American Medical Association Press. His research has been funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation among others. David has been a member of numerous NIMH grant review committees and has received several prestigious awards including being named an American College of Physicians Teaching and Research Scholar and a Henry J Kaiser Family Foundation Scholar in General Internal Medicine.
Pamela DeBellis
As a recognized champion and driver of new ventures, Pam has designed, developed and launched numerous healthcare products exceeding $100m in collective sales revenue. She has worked in pivotal roles with several companies that have been acquired and holds five U.S. and international patents on medical devices. She has worked globally with Medtronic, Sunrise Medical, Boston Scientific, Philips HealthTech, Intuitive Surgical, Global Healthcare Exchange, Amazon Web Services, ActiViews, Encision Inc. and Radish Systems in many leadership and executive positions. She has been quoted in numerous publications about innovation, diversity, and customer experience. Pam holds a M. Eng. Mechanical Engineering from the University of Colorado - Boulder and a B.S. Ceramic Science and Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University.
Catherine Le Roi
As a seasoned change practitioner, Catherine is focused on putting the customer first, leveraging best practices, and ensuring that continuous improvement activities are not done in a vacuum. Catherine has over 20 years of experience in Medical Devices, Software and Health services working in both small and large companies in America and Europe. Catherine holds a BA Hons from Exeter University, England and a MS in Marketing and Information Systems from the University of Colorado-Boulder. She is a certified black belt in Six Sigma and Lean Sigma. She originally came to the US as an International Rotary Scholar in the role of a Goodwill Ambassador.
Jeanette Waxmonsky
Jeanette is a nationally recognized expert on the development, implementation and evaluation of innovative integrated behavioral health services for a variety of patient populations. She is one of the developers of the widely adopted Integrated Care Practice Assessment Tool (IPAT). Jeanette has been an Associate Professor of Family Medicine and Psychiatry at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, a Vice President of Integrated Care, Product Development at New Directions Behavioral Health and Director of Research Innovation at the Jefferson Center for Mental Health.
Kristi Bohling-DaMetz
Informed by over 25 years of combined experience in healthcare delivery, community and leadership development, and human-centered design, Kristi is focused on implementing integrated models that promote whole person health. In her role as CEO of HealthTeamWorks she leads a team dedicated to performance improvement, organization development, and workforce training toward a vision for health, equity, and resilience. She was Program Director for a first round CMS/CMMI Health Care Innovation Award leveraging redesign, data analytics, and population health in the creation of patient-centered medical neighborhoods and continues to work across national and regional initiatives. Kristi holds a MBA and is a BSN prepared registered nurse.
Frank deGruy
Frank Dr. deGruy has chaired the family medicine department since 1999, and before this he chaired the University of Alabama Department of Family Medicine. He has served as president of the Collaborative Family Healthcare Association and the North American Primary Care Research Group. Dr. deGruy is a board member for the National Network of Depression Centers, the Family Physicians’ Inquiries Network, and of the Colorado Institute of Family Medicine. He chairs the National Integration Academy Council, and sits on the editorial board for The Annals of Family Medicine and Families, Systems and Health. He creates and writes "Precipice: Pushing the Edge of Family Medicine," an annual publication that addresses hard problems in primary care, and he is a member of the National Academy of Medicine.
