Closing the Gap Between Care and Outcomes in Behavioral Health Policy

• By: Christopher Ivany, MD Family Care Center
• July 29th, 2026
• behavioral health policy, GAD-7, measurement-based care, mental health quality, PHQ-9, psychiatric services, Summer 2026 Issue, treatment outcomes, value-based care
• 500    0

As behavioral health expands access and continues to trend toward more parity with physical health, the focus is moving from just counting how many people get care to asking whether that care is actually improving lives. How behavioral health organizations consistently and clearly answer that...

Depression Detection Has Never Been More Important: PHQ-9 Enables Clinicians and Patients to Track and Address Depression With Combined Physical and Emotion Symptoms Score

• By: Cindy Fox Aisen, PhD Regenstrief Institute
• July 14th, 2022
• assessment, depression, mental health, PHQ-9, research study, Summer 2022 Issue
• 2686    0

The COVID-19 pandemic, armed conflicts, economic dislocations, and other concerns have affected mental health around the globe. Clinical depression, which affects 300 million individuals worldwide, is projected to increase. With findings that are significant for both clinicians and patients,...