Web Platform to Integrate Behavioral Health

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.

Study Overview

• Status: Unknown
• Conditions: Integrating Behavioral Health
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Software

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 Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Anticipated): 16000

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • Indiana
    • Connersville, Indiana, United States, 47331
      • Fayette Regional
  • Pennsylvania
    • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19134
      • Port Richmond Family Medicine

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Child; Adult; Older Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

Patients that enter the health system through primary care clinics, academic medical and behavioral health centers, hospitals, or rural health clinics.

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Potential Mental Health issue

Exclusion Criteria:

• Not Willing to be Screened for mental health issues

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Number of groups / cohorts

5

Cohorts and Interventions

Group / Cohort	Intervention / Treatment
Temple Physicians Incorporated; A community-based provider, operating 32 primary care sites	Other: Software; multi-module system of web software tools
WhiteBark; For profit entity created by the Indiana Rural Health Association	Other: Software; multi-module system of web software tools
Drexel Family Intervention Science; 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.	Other: Software; multi-module system of web software tools
Bon Secours Health System; A primary care clinic in Baltimore that provides care services to a population in a lower socioeconomic status in downtown Baltimore.	Other: Software; multi-module system of web software tools
Howard University Hospital CARES; 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.	Other: Software; multi-module system of web software tools

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Increase Provider Integration	Increase collaboration between Primary Care Physician and mental health series.	2 Years

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Increase Screening	Increase identification rates of adults with depression and substance abuse problems.	2 Years
Increase Referrals	Increase successful referrals to mental health services.	2 Years

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Medical Decision Logic, Inc.
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Allen Tien, MD, Medical Decision Logic, Inc.

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Anticipated): September 25, 2018
• Primary Completion (Anticipated): September 25, 2019
• Study Completion (Anticipated): September 25, 2019

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: November 20, 2017
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: November 20, 2017
• First Posted (Actual): November 22, 2017

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): August 29, 2018
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: August 28, 2018
• Last Verified: August 1, 2018

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: behavioral health; software; integration
• Other Study ID Numbers: N44DA-17-5679

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No