A New Model for Behavioral Health Care: Scientifically Driven, Industry Wide Standards of Care

While large behavioral care delivery systems can develop their own internal benchmarks and compare delivery sites internally, the behavioral health industry has yet to follow the lead of other major industries to develop cross-organizational data sharing capabilities which allow for broad consensus on best practices and best outcomes. 

Broadly scaled, cross-industry data will enable large scale data analysis, machine learning and other AI model insights that will help establish high quality national standards of care against which the entire behavioral care industry can benchmark their relative performance. 

The benefits to enhanced quality of care and the bottom line are potentially extraordinary.