Computerization of Mental Health Integration complexity scores at Intermountain Healthcare.
Year: 2014
Type: article
Abstract: Intermountain Healthcare's Mental Health Integration (MHI) Care Process Model (CPM) contains formal scoring criteria for assessing a patient's mental health complexity as "mild," "medium," or "high" based on patient data. The complexity score attempts to assist Primary Care Physicians in assessing the mental health needs of their patients and what resources will need to be brought to bear. We describe an effort to computerize the scoring. Informatics and MHI personnel collaboratively and iteratively refined the criteria to make them adequately explicit and reflective of MHI objectives. When tested on retrospective data of 540 patients, the clinician agreed with the computer's conclusion in 52.8% of the cases (285/540). We considered the analysis sufficiently successful to begin piloting the computerized score in prospective clinical care. So far in the pilot, clinicians have agreed with the computer in 70.6% of the cases (24/34).
Source: PubMed Central
Authors: Thomas A Oniki, Drayton Rodrigues, Noman Rahman, Saritha Patur, Pascal Briot, David P Taylor, Adam B Wilcox, Brenda Reiss-Brennan, Wayne H Cannon
Institution: Intermountain Healthcare
Language: English
Subfield: Health Information Management
Field: Health Professions
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2396658653