Dr Ben Buchanan is a psychologist and Co-founder & Director of NovoPsych, an Australian healthtech company providing software for administering psychological, remote and online questionnaires to patients. As a trained clinical psychologist, Ben is passionate about clinicians evaluating their own practice through the use of routine outcome monitoring, which is why he created NovoPsych.

In this episode, Ben explains why outcome measurements should focus on Australian requirements, and how the recent and sudden transformation towards telehealth can be easily adapted to using NovoPsych. Ben provides some guidance on what a telehealth workflow could look like, and how to implement automation with remote symptom monitoring of patients between visits or after treatment.

 

Key takeaways:
In Australia, one of the most widely used assessments to measure mental health outcomes is called the K10 — also known as the ‘Kessler Psychological Distress Scale’. Australia regulations of mental health practitioners require some outcome monitoring to occur. NovoPsych has been tailored to fit the exact purpose that Australian mental health conditions need.
Healthcare is a service industry, in which it’s just as important to provide a service that the client is happy with as it is to improve clinical outcomes.
One of the number one predictors of treatment success for mental health patients is the ‘therapeutic alliance’, i.e. the relationship between the psychologist and the client. If the client trusts the psychologist then that is a serious predictor of later outcomes.
Practitioners often have to rely on their intuition to get a sense about whether the client is benefitting from the treatment. However, the research evidence shows that trained professionals are terrible at using intuition to accurately measure how their clients are going.
Within NovoPsych there are therapeutic alliance measures that can tell the psychologist from the get-go whether they're reaching their client or not, so adjustments can be made in the early stages of treatment.

 

Resources and links:
https://novopsych.com.au/

 

Connect:
Listen to other episodes of Reimagining Healthcare
Connect with Yianni Serpanos on LinkedIn
Follow HealthTechX on LinkedIn
Follow HealthTechX on Instagram
Follow HealthTechX on Meetup

Dr Ben Buchanan is a psychologist and Co-founder &amp; Director of NovoPsych, an Australian healthtech company providing software for administering psychological, remote and online questionnaires to patients. As a trained clinical psychologist, Ben is passionate about clinicians evaluating their own practice through the use of routine outcome monitoring, which is why he created NovoPsych.
In this episode, Ben explains why outcome measurements should focus on Australian requirements, and how the recent and sudden transformation towards telehealth can be easily adapted to using NovoPsych. Ben provides some guidance on what a telehealth workflow could look like, and how to implement automation with remote symptom monitoring of patients between visits or after treatment.
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Key takeaways:
<ol>
<li>In Australia, one of the most widely used assessments to measure mental health outcomes is called the K10 &mdash; also known as the &lsquo;Kessler Psychological Distress Scale&rsquo;. Australia regulations of mental health practitioners require some outcome monitoring to occur. NovoPsych has been tailored to fit the exact purpose that Australian mental health conditions need.</li>
<li>Healthcare is a service industry, in which it&rsquo;s just as important to provide a service that the client is happy with as it is to improve clinical outcomes.</li>
<li>One of the number one predictors of treatment success for mental health patients is the &lsquo;therapeutic alliance&rsquo;, i.e. the relationship between the psychologist and the client. If the client trusts the psychologist then that is a serious predictor of later outcomes.</li>
<li>Practitioners often have to rely on their intuition to get a sense about whether the client is benefitting from the treatment. However, the research evidence shows that trained professionals are terrible at using intuition to accurately measure how their clients are going.</li>
<li>Within NovoPsych there are therapeutic alliance measures that can tell the psychologist from the get-go whether they're reaching their client or not, so adjustments can be made in the early stages of treatment.</li>
</ol>
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Resources and links:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://novopsych.com.au/">https://novopsych.com.au/</a></li>
</ul>
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Connect:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://healthtechx.com.au/podcasts/">Listen to other episodes of Reimagining Healthcare</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/yianni-serpanos/">Connect with Yianni Serpanos on LinkedIn</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/healthtechx">Follow HealthTechX on LinkedIn</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.instagram.com/my_healthtechx/">Follow HealthTechX on Instagram</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.meetup.com/HealthTechX/">Follow HealthTechX on Meetup</a></li>
</ul>

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Reimagining Healthcare is a podcast about digital health innovation in the healthcare industry. On the show, we're talking HealthTech and Healthcare with innovators and how they’re building a world of seamless digital healthcare experiences with positive impact on people’s lives.

We cover all areas of digital mental health, digital physical therapy, digital wellness, digital health interventions and digital health therapeutics.  

Our guests include healthcare providers, developers, advisers and investors providing for a diverse and culturally rich exploration of the journey toward a world of integration digital health empowerment for all people covering start ups, scale ups and all types of entrepreneurial activity in the space.

Hosted by Yianni Serpanos, a HealthTech industry leader and Founder of HealthTechX.com.au (a digital health innovation & health tech start up community) and coreplus.com.au (digital health practice management software).

Reimagining Healthcare is a podcast about digital health innovation in the healthcare industry. On the show, we're talking HealthTech and Healthcare with innovators and how they&rsquo;re building a world of seamless digital healthcare experiences with positive impact on people&rsquo;s lives.
We cover all areas of digital mental health, digital physical therapy, digital wellness, digital health interventions and digital health therapeutics.&nbsp; Our guests include healthcare providers, developers, advisers and investors providing for a diverse and culturally rich exploration of the journey toward a world of integration digital health empowerment for all people covering start ups, scale ups and all types of entrepreneurial activity in the space.
Hosted by <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/yianni-serpanos/">Yianni Serpanos</a>, a HealthTech industry leader and Founder of <a href="https://healthtechx.com.au/">HealthTechX</a>.com.au (a digital health innovation &amp; health tech start up community) and <a href="https://coreplus.com.au/">coreplus</a>.com.au (digital health practice management software).

Reimagining Healthcare is a podcast about digital health  innovation.

Reimagining Healthcare

Reimagining Healthcare is a podcast about innovation in the healthcare industry. On the show, we talk to healthtech and healthcare innovators to uncover how they’re reimagining and building a world of seamless digital healthcare experiences that fit into people’s lives. Hosted by Yianni Serpanos, healthtech industry leader and Founder of HealthTechX (digital health innovation & start up community) and coreplus (digital health software).

Reimagining Healthcare is a podcast about innovation in the healthcare industry. On the show, we talk to healthtech and healthcare innovators to uncover how they&rsquo;re reimagining and building a world of seamless digital healthcare experiences that fit into people&rsquo;s lives. Hosted by <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/yianni-serpanos/">Yianni Serpanos</a>, healthtech industry leader and Founder of <a href="https://healthtechx.com.au/">HealthTechX</a> (digital health innovation &amp; start up community) and <a href="https://coreplus.com.au/">coreplus</a> (digital health software).

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