Bergen-New Bridge Medical Center, a 1,070-bed nonprofit hospital based in Paramus, New Jersey, has partnered with NeuroFlow, a behavioral health technology and analytics company, to help measure and monitor risk in its patient population.
The goal is for the medical center to integrate NeuroFlow’s workflow tools into the medical center’s outpatient care environment to enhance identification of behavioral health needs and more efficiently allocate care resources.
The collaboration will initially focus on providing care team members with the ability to track and evaluate patient progress between appointments to improve resource allocation.
“We have been looking for ways to identify and prioritize the behavioral health needs of our patients, and our partnership with NeuroFlow will enable us to do this by collecting critical data and helping manage clinical decisions,” Deborah Visconi, president and CEO of Bergen New Bridge Medical Center, said in a statement.
“By addressing underlying, undiagnosed mental illness, we can more effectively prevent crises. On the operational side, we can better integrate all of our health care resources, share data and information, and create a truly customized care plan for everyone so we can treat the illness and care for that person.”
About 70 percent of Bergen New Bridge Medical Center’s patients are Medicaid patients, so identifying risk patterns and underlying mental illnesses is crucial.
“We recognize that serving vulnerable populations like those on Medicaid can be difficult, but it is essential that we address their complex and costly needs,” Dr. Tom Saubler, NeuroFlow’s chief medical officer, said in a statement.
“That’s why NeuroFlow leverages multiple access points, from SMS text to web to in-clinic tablet flows, to lower the barrier to collecting critical data about a patient’s behavioral health severity.”
Saubler added that the company is focused on providing workflow tools designed to act as an extension of existing clinical resources.
Larger trends
In July, NeuroFlow announced a partnership with Intermountain Health to help identify the behavioral health needs of the Colorado health system’s primary care patients.
NeuroFlow announced in June that it had acquired behavioral digital health company Owl, expanding its measurement-based services to help providers identify and manage behavioral care needs.
Last year, Novant Health, a health care provider based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, partnered with NeuroFlow to offer expanded mental health services to patients and team members.
NeuroFlow has also partnered with New Jersey-based Atlantic Health System to advance a collaborative care model for adult behavioral health patients across 16 accountable care organization (ACO) sites.
Other behavioral health technology companies include Kipu Health, which acquired Hatch Compliance earlier this month, enhancing its suite of services by adding “robust governance, risk and compliance” capabilities.
Last month, Talkspace announced a partnership with the Professional Tennis Players Association (PTPA) as the player advocacy group’s exclusive mental health technology partner.
Woebot Health, a company developing AI-powered mental health chatbots, announced it has signed a three-year agreement with Aron Children’s, a nonprofit pediatric health system based in Ohio, to provide pediatric mental health support to adolescents ages 13 to 17.
Canary Speech, a maker of AI-powered speech analytics software, also announced a partnership with the nonprofit Veteran Business Project to provide veteran entrepreneurs with tools to manage their mental health.
