How Multidisciplinary Care Improves Outcomes for Anxiety and Depression

• By: Christopher Ivany, MD Family Care Center
• September 29th, 2025
• anxiety and depression, behavioral health outcomes, coordinated treatment, Fall 2025 Issue, intensive outpatient programs, measurement-based care, multidisciplinary care, transcranial magnetic stimulation, whole-person care
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Anxiety and depression affect physiology, cognition, behavior, and social functioning. Addressing only one domain—prescribing a medication without psychotherapy or offering therapy without coordinated pharmacologic care—often leaves residual symptoms and increases the risk of...

The New Normal: How We Learned to Love and Understand Data

• By: Elisa Chow, PhD Institute for Community Living (ICL)
• April 1st, 2017
• behavioral health outcomes, care quality improvement, data-driven decision making, electronic health records, health data analytics, Medicaid managed care, outcome measurement, value-based care
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Data. The world today is all about data. With the transformation of the Medicaid payment system into a more value-based approach, the need for understanding data has taken a higher priority at many agencies, including ICL. Managed Care Organizations (MCOs) are making arrangements with agencies that...