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7 must-have EHR features to effectively manage your Psychiatry Practice

These days mental disorders are common worldwide. But the quality of care for these disorders has not increased to the same extent as that for physical conditions. The mental health field is far behind other specialties with regard to the implementation of technologies, especially health information technology to capture relevant health information that could support the diagnosis of mental and behavioral health. Mental health providers often use separate electronic medical record systems compared to general medical provider counterparts or do not have access to these systems at all. This creates big challenges for mental health professionals as a whole in providing quality care for patients who often require coordinated services across different sectors. Instead of the psychiatrist making an anxiety index on paper and manually calculating scores, the EHR technology can allow him to enter it directly into the system. From there, the software will automatically configure graphs showing