Web Platform to Integrate Behavioral Health

• Conditions: Integrating Behavioral Health
• Interventions: Other: Software

• Registration Number: NCT03351374
• Lead Sponsor: Medical Decision Logic, Inc.

Brief Summary

Under this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project, Research Topic 155, the Contractor will create an integrated multi-module system of web software tools to aid in behavioral health screening, prevention, triage, and tracking in medical, school, and mental health settings.

Detailed Description

Health care systems experience problems with lack of tools, lack of knowledge, process variation, and system fragmentation in addressing behavioral health. As an ongoing science-based process for improving care and lowering costs, robust increases in translational capability are needed to re-tool health delivery systems for behavioral health integration. A logic linking translational capability to behavioral health integration as an ongoing shared information process, founded on the core belief that enabling human action with new information technology tools can grow knowledge, is the most powerful way to solve problems and improve health care.

Given these connected and interacting issues and obstacles, the Contractor has developed a solution strategy, building on four tiers of prior innovation and validation:

* The Behavioral Health Screen (BHS);

* BH-Works: the web software delivery of the BHS and new production features from Phase I;

* BH-Works Portal: new production software features from Phase I; and

* BH-Works Services: expertise and professional services to help primary care providers and healthcare systems integrate behavioral health into their organizations and workflows.

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2017-11-20
• Study First Submitted QC: 2017-11-20
• Study First Posted: 2017-11-22
• Status Verified: 2018-08
• Last Update Submitted: 2018-08-28
• Last Update Posted: 2018-08-29
• Study Start: 2018-09-25
• Primary Completion: 2019-09-25
• Study Completion: 2019-09-25

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 16000

Inclusion Criteria

• Potential Mental Health issue

Exclusion Criteria

• Not Willing to be Screened for mental health issues

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Drexel Family Intervention Science	Software	Academic center that developed and deployed Attachment Based Family Therapy (ABFT) assessment, treatment, and prevention models with an interest in adolescents struggling with substance abuse, depression, trauma, and suicidality.
Temple Physicians Incorporated	Software	A community-based provider, operating 32 primary care sites
Howard University Hospital CARES	Software	A project provides free outpatient medical, dental, mental health, nutrition and social services for HIV positive uninsured and underinsured residents of the District of Columbia.
Bon Secours Health System	Software	A primary care clinic in Baltimore that provides care services to a population in a lower socioeconomic status in downtown Baltimore.
WhiteBark	Software	For profit entity created by the Indiana Rural Health Association

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Increase Provider Integration	2 Years	Increase collaboration between Primary Care Physician and mental health series.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Increase Screening	2 Years	Increase identification rates of adults with depression and substance abuse problems.
Increase Referrals	2 Years	Increase successful referrals to mental health services.

Trial Locations

Locations (2)

Port Richmond Family Medicine; 🇺🇸 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Fayette Regional; 🇺🇸 Connersville, Indiana, United States