APA & Climate Change: What psychology can do

I sat down Monday morning to write this week’s blog post. I was intent upon writing about American Psychological Association’s (APA) recent report on climate change and what the psychology community can do about it. I had previously glanced at the executive summary of the report and was excited to learn what the entire report recommended. Unfortunately, [...]

Integrating Behavioral Health and Primary Care

The September 29, 2009 edition of NJAMHA Newswire reports on a trend appearing strongly in New Jersey and in many other states: attempts to provide primary care treatment at the behavioral health setting or alternatively, to integrate behavioral health treatment into the primary care setting. In fact, the National Council, the major membership organization of community behavioral health care providers, has [...]

E-prescribing and a Behavioral Health EHR: Where to from here?

For the past several years Synergistic Office Solutions, Inc. has had the privilege and pleasure of participating as a member of the Software and Technology Vendor Association (SATVA), a group of vendors of software and other technology for the Behavioral Health and Social Services community. Last Thursday, I returned from our semi-annual member meeting…charged up [...]

The big toe is in…

For the past couple of months we here at SOS Software have been toying with the idea of starting a blog. Stepping into the blogosphere is intimidating to me. As our customers know, Synergistic Office Solutions is a small company providing medical and mental health practice management software and mental health clinical records. Our staff range [...]