Do you know how many clicks it takes to enter med passes in your EHR?

You can bet the medication techs at your behavioral health organization do.

In this behavioral health staffing crisis, every turnover at your addiction treatment center negatively impacts your ability to provide adequate patient care. Behind every technician who leaves your organization, there is a motivating irritant that drives them away. Some causes of burnout are out of your control. Others aren’t. Too often the deciding irritant that drives valuable behavioral health staff members away is a clunky, cumbersome EHR. 

When a subpar EHR is sucking the joy out of behavioral healthcare for your staff, med passes can become an absolute nightmare. 

10 or 15 Clicks For Every Addiction Treatment Patient’s Med Pass is Way Too Much EHR Time 

Imagine what your technicians are going through when they’re wrestling with a clunky EHR. 

Imagine, if you will: 

• Opening the med pass screen 

• Navigating to the med admin section

• Entering or scanning the patient 

• Checking off their medication list 

• Scanning the medication 

• Approving the medication 

• Cross-checking the medication 

• Cross-checking the cross-check 

• FInalizing the cross-checked cross-check…

Each of these bullet points might involve one, two, or three clicks. Perhaps there’s even a tricky drop down menu to struggle with repeatedly. 

Now imagine doing that entire process over and over again for every patient in your facility, multiple times a day. Now imagine the system glitching half-way through and not being able to even reach a human on the support line!

Med Pass Frustration and EHR Struggles Equal Burnout and Behavioral Health Staff Turnover 

The above description is a recipe for abject frustration. Abject frustration is a recipe for burnout. Burnout translates to lost productivity, and, ultimately, high turnover. That’s a huge liability in our current staffing climate. 

Don’t be that organization that has every asset it needs to function — except the staff to actually provide care. Choosing the wrong EHR can turn your staffing struggle into a staffing nightmare.

Behavioral Health EHR Med Pass Inefficiencies Can Lead to Dangerous Medication Errors

Finally, medication errors become more likely as staff burnout rises. When your medication techs are too busy clicking through repetitive screens, they’re less likely to pay attention to what they’re actually doing. In extreme cases, these errors can become deadly. 

Efficiency in these cases ensures not only a happy workforce but safe patients. 

The Best Behavioral Health EHR Med Pass Workflows Minimize Clicks and Screen Time

Improving med-passing workflows means eliminating as many repetitive clicks as possible. It means automated inventory updates. Our batch processed med passes allow your clinicians to do what they do best: step away from the computer and focus on providing face-to-face care to your patients. 

When clinicians feel chained to an inefficient EHR, they come to resent their software instead of viewing it as a useful tool for providing patient care. 

Behave Health’s Med Pass Workflow Solution Eliminates the Pain Points of Medication Management for Addiction Treatment

At Behave Health, we listen to clinicians, executives and - yes - patients in order to develop cutting-edge software solutions that make the behavioral health space a fun and exciting place to be for everyone involved. 

Pleasant, efficient med pass workflows are one of many ways we deliver on this promise in our all-in-one EHR.

Your Behavioral Health EHR’s Prescription Workflow Should be Easy, Too 

Are your prescription workflows feeling cumbersome, too? 

Let your clinicians prescribe medications electronically all within a single platform. We’ve integrated DrFirst into our EHR so your clinicians can add medications quickly and easily. 

DrFirst sends all orders directly to your preferred pharmacy, so there’s no more logistical issues between writing the prescription and delivering the prescription to the patient. 

Behavioral health medication management has never been more convenient. 

Ready to Put an End to EHR Medication Management Struggles and Behavioral Health Med Pass Headaches? We Can Help.

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