Pediatric Practice Assistant: A Web and Mobile Platform to Measure Mental Health Problems in Pediatric Practice

Project Summary Abstract The purpose of this SBIR Phase I projectPediatric Practice AssistantA Web and Mobile Platform to Measure Mental Health Problems in Pediatric Practiceis to establish new features that improve the screening and individualized follow up assessment of young childrenusing parent reportand assist in strengthening referral processes and outcomes using managed and interactive text messagingWe will also add new library capabilities for unlimited public and proprietary screening toolsincluding support for business agreements with publishers for their copyrighted materialIn the USof children have mentalbehavioralor developmental problems and disordersbut clinical identification and treatment are still laggingMore thanof children visit a pediatrician annuallybut pediatric providers have not overcome barriers to implementing routine behavioral health screening and treatmentThese barriers include time constraintslack of training in mental healthlack of screening and diagnostic toolslack of referral resourcesand lack of knowledge about reimbursement opportunitiesAlsogiven the range of disorders and patient agespediatricians need help selecting from a large library of toolsas well as managing individual patient results and translating this information into the best possible treatment plans for their patientsParents also need guidance when completing these assessments for their childrenMany parents do not respond when they are asked to complete paper or web based screens at home prior to office visitsAdditionallypaper screens often require staff to score and enter data into an EHRgenerating more work for the staff and increasing the margin of errorConsequentlyadding screening to the office clinical process without addressing other barriers to caresuch as referral processesmay lead to staff resistancee gwhy screen if we have no place to send them !To overcome these barriers for both parents and pediatric providerswe will implement these new functions on an existing scalable HIPAA compliant platformBH WorksBH Works includes a proprietary screening tool that measuresdomains of functioning in youth and adults using self reportand instantly generates a scored report for the clinicianBH Works has screened more thanyouth and adults acrossstates and the tool is used in diverse settings for care managementreferral and care coordinationbest practice workflowsand systems integration supportThe web based platform also aggregates screening and EHR datacreating an information hub which will facilitate academic and policy contributions in behavioral health Project Narrative The purpose of this SBIR Phase I projectPediatric Practice AssistantA Web and Mobile Platform to Measure Mental Health Problems in Pediatric Practiceis to establish new features that improve the screening and individualized follow up assessment of young childrenusing parent reportand assist in strengthening referral processes and outcomes using managed and interactive text messagingWe will also add new library capabilities for unlimited public and proprietary screening toolsincluding support for business agreements with publishers for their copyrighted materialWe will implement these new functions on an existing scalable HIPAA compliant platformBH WorksBHWorks includes a proprietary screening tool that measuresdomains of functioning in youth and adults using self reportand instantly generates a scored report for the clinicianBH Works has screened more thanyouth and adults acrossstates and the tool is used in diverse settings for care managementreferral and care coordinationbest practice workflowsand systems integration supportThe web based platform also aggregates screening and EHR datacreating an information hub which will facilitate academic and policy contributions in behavioral health