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September is Su***de Prevention Awareness Month.For the clinicians, counselors, peer specialists, and crisis workers we ...
09/01/2026

September is Su***de Prevention Awareness Month.

For the clinicians, counselors, peer specialists, and crisis workers we get to work alongside every day: thank you.

You hold space for people on their hardest days.

You sit with grief, with fear, with the impossible weight of "what if."

You make calls and check-ins and safety plans that no one else sees.

The work is heavy. The work matters.

If you or someone you love is struggling, you can reach the 988 Su***de and Crisis Lifeline anytime by call or text.

You are not alone. Help is closer than it feels.

***dePreventionAwarenessMonth #988

Crisis and mobile clinicians are documenting in cars, in parking lots, at kitchen tables.Their documentation infrastruct...
08/21/2026

Crisis and mobile clinicians are documenting in cars, in parking lots, at kitchen tables.

Their documentation infrastructure was built for someone sitting at a desk.

That mismatch is not a clinician problem. It is a workflow design problem that quietly produces compliance risk.

Crisis notes get written under pressure that looks nothing like a 15-minute office visit. Mobile work means spotty connectivity, offline devices, templates that have to load fast between visits.

When the infrastructure does not match the work, the work still gets done. It just gets documented less defensibly.

And that gap shows up later. In audits. In denials. In medical necessity disputes.
Mobile-native, offline-capable documentation is not a convenience feature for these teams. It is a compliance question.

And most organizations have not asked it yet.

08/19/2026

Three days at the 2026 OPEN MINDS Service Excellence Institute reinforced something we're hearing across behavioral health: the AI conversation is changing.

Leaders aren't just asking, “What can AI do?” They're asking:

Who configures it?
How does it understand our organization?
Who governs and reviews it?
How does it support quality and compliance without replacing clinical judgment?
And does it actually reduce burden for the people delivering care?

Those were some of the conversations we had in San Francisco, with leaders thinking beyond individual AI tools and toward what responsible, organization-wide AI adoption should look like.

And yes, there was some fun along the way. Dinner at Sens, great conversations, and even a magician working the tables made it a memorable few days.

Here's a look back at OPEN MINDS 2026. Thanks to everyone who spent time with us!

Most behavioral health compliance programs are built to audit documentation.Not prevent documentation problems.That dist...
08/05/2026

Most behavioral health compliance programs are built to audit documentation.

Not prevent documentation problems.

That distinction is becoming expensive.

Most orgs still rely on retroactive QA:
• sample charts
• corrective action plans
• delayed feedback
• post-submission fixes

But by then, the claim is already submitted and the risk has already spread across charts nobody reviewed.

Preventive compliance changes the model.

Catch the issue at finalization, not 8 weeks later in an audit sample.

The next 24 months will make that difference impossible to ignore.

The behavioral health market isn't slowing down to let anyone catch up.The organizations pulling ahead aren't the ones r...
08/04/2026

The behavioral health market isn't slowing down to let anyone catch up.

The organizations pulling ahead aren't the ones reacting fastest. They're the ones making strategic, data-informed decisions before the pressure hits.

That's the conversation happening at the 2026 OPEN MINDS Service Excellence Institute, August 11 to 13 in San Francisco.

Three days of executive-level insight on clinical resilience, operational performance, and building service lines that deliver measurable value.

Ross Young and Garret Albers will be there at booth 103. If you're thinking about how technology fits into a stronger, more defensible service line, come find them. We'd like to hear what you're working on.

The same two audit findings show up year after year.Across organizations. Across regions. Across review bodies.First: mi...
07/31/2026

The same two audit findings show up year after year.

Across organizations. Across regions. Across review bodies.

First: missing medical necessity language.
Second: the assessment and progress notes contradicting each other.

Both are documentation infrastructure problems. Not clinician problems.

Here is what is worth restating: training cannot solve this.

Clinicians already know what medical necessity language looks like. They already know assessments and progress notes should line up. Training tells them what they know.

What training does not do is catch the gap at the moment the note is finalized. By the time the next QA sample surfaces it, the chart is closed and the audit risk is already on the books.

The organizations that move these findings off their reports are not running more training.

They put infrastructure between the clinician and the finalized chart.

07/29/2026

Behavioral health keeps getting put in a different box.

Slower AI adoption.

More restrictions.

Less flexibility than physical health gets by default.

Richard Edley, CEO of RCPA has watched it happen for decades.

And his question is simple: why?

Full episode on The Tea in Behavioral Health. Link in comments.

Behavioral health documentation isn't slower because clinicians are slower.It's slower because the work itself is struct...
07/28/2026

Behavioral health documentation isn't slower because clinicians are slower.

It's slower because the work itself is structurally different.

A few things to know about why BH notes take longer than any other specialty 👇

Everyone wants to know which AI tool is “best” for behavioral health.Wrong question.Before evaluating vendors, organizat...
07/15/2026

Everyone wants to know which AI tool is “best” for behavioral health.

Wrong question.

Before evaluating vendors, organizations should evaluate themselves first.

Three things matter:

• Can the AI be configured to your standards, policies, and interpretation of regulations?
• Is there clear governance around who owns, updates, and audits the system?
• Can your team QA AI outputs the same way you’d QA a clinician’s documentation?

If a vendor can’t explain how their AI adapts to your organization’s DNA, it’s probably a black box with better branding.

The real question isn’t:
“Which AI is best?”

It’s:
“How clearly has your organization defined what good looks like?”

Your standards. Your governance. Your AI.

HIPAA compliance is not the same thing as 42 CFR Part 2 compliance.Most healthcare AI vendors do not understand that dis...
07/15/2026

HIPAA compliance is not the same thing as 42 CFR Part 2 compliance.

Most healthcare AI vendors do not understand that distinction.

Behavioral health organizations cannot afford to miss it.

HIPAA covers general healthcare privacy.

42 CFR Part 2 is a separate and stricter federal framework specifically for substance use disorder records, with its own:
• consent requirements
• redisclosure restrictions
• compliance obligations

A vendor built for HIPAA is not automatically built for Part 2.

That gap is starting to surface during AI procurement and compliance reviews across behavioral health.

If your organization handles SUD records, the real diligence question is not:
“Are you HIPAA compliant?”

It’s:
“How specifically does your product support 42 CFR Part 2 requirements?”

Those are very different questions.

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