The National Council for Mental Wellbeing has released new guidance for organizations offering mental health and substance use treatment and care centered around measurement-informed care.
The guidance — titled "Advancing Measurement-informed Care in Community Behavioral Health" — was put together by the council's Center of Excellence for Integrated Health Solutions and the Medical Director Institute, according to a Feb. 26 news release.
The recommendations are a step toward standardizing measurement-informed care in value-based care arrangements and can be used for both clinical decision-making and providing data to payers. Organizations select a curated set of measures to meet its clinical care and reporting needs in an effort to reduce confusion and burden for providers and patients.