Mental Health news and information

The Defense Department's on-again, off-again flirtation with the Veterans Affairs Department's VistA electronic health-record system appears to be on again. But this time, a lot of other suitors will compete for the military's affection and what likely will be billions of taxpayers' dollars.
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A New Mexico legislative subcommittee wants the attorney general to investigate whether the state improperly released the names of 2,000 to 3,000 patients being treated for drug or alcohol abuse.
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The first time Melissa Morelli was taken to the hospital, she was suicidal and cutting herself, her mother says. She was just 13, and she had been transferred to a psychiatric hospital, where she stayed for more than a week. Her doctors told her mother, Cathy Morelli, that it was not safe for...
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The New York State Office of Mental Health has awarded a contract to install a derivative of the Veterans Affairs Department's VistA electronic health-record system throughout its 24-hospital, 310-clinic healthcare system that provides mental health services to 700,000 people a year.
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Lawmakers and behavioral healthcare advocates are amplifying their call for legislation to expand access to community behavioral healthcare services after this week's Navy Yard shooting.
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Air Force veteran Dianne Brown is a patient of the Cheyenne VA Medical Center Mobile Telehealth Clinic, Laramie, Wyo. The clinic exists to provide primary care and mental healthcare to “rural and highly rural veterans.” Like all veterans who work with providers at the mobile clinic,...
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In 2012, more American soldiers died by suicide than in direct combat. A year later, healthcare and IT researchers working with the Veterans Affairs Department are looking to use natural language processing to mine electronic health-record systems for telltale signs of soldiers at clear risk for...
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In a class-action lawsuit, the city of San Francisco claims Nevada state-hospital officials secretly bused hundreds of homeless patients from a psychiatric hospital to California.
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The benefits of expanding Medicaid coverage to homeless and chronically ill adults under healthcare reform may seem obvious. But enrolling this population and providing them with healthcare services will not be easily achieved, a survey published in Health Affairs shows.
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GoHealth, an online health insurance broker, said Wednesday it will develop a service for tax preparer H&R Block to enable consumers to purchase health insurance while getting their income taxes done.
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