Public Health & Behavioral Health EHR Solutions

COVID-19 Resources for Public & Behavioral Health

There is so much information out there about COVID-19. It’s nearly impossible to keep up with it all, and even harder to sort out the important information from the rest.

Because we know you’re overwhelmingly busy during these stressful times, we pulled together a list of resources and information that we thought would be helpful. While not exhaustive, we hope this list will help save you time and give you much needed information.

Customer Videos

Patagonia Health is the fastest growing Electronic Health Records Company in the nation.

Alan Taylor, host for Inc. Radio, interviews Ashok Mathur who tells his story of success, Patagonia Health ranked in top 5% (#269) on the 34th annual...

Cleveland County Health Department Shares Proven Best Practices for a Successful Public Health EHR Implementation

As with all public health departments, Cleveland County was faced with the task of finding a usable and affordable EHR ...

Patagonia Health users talk about switching from paper to EHR software.

As per federal mandate, a large number of local health departments are switching to Electronic Health Record software. Hear directly from nurses, billing and administrative staff as to how they are ...

Turning Point Family CARE talks about the many improvements achieved through Patagonia Health's EHR

After implementing Patagonia Health EHR, Turning Point Family CARE reduced their claims denials rate to less than 1%, improved their timely submission for ...

Patagonia Health User Focus Groups

Patagonia Health believes that training doesn’t stop after go-live. Prior to go live, users are focused on learning and practicing the basics of their day to day job. Patagonia Health has lots of advanced capabilities which users wish to ...

Patagonia Health Wins Bronze Stevie® Award in 2016 10th Annual Stevie Awards

We started this company with a focus on solving two major user problems: to provide a modern, easy-to-use EHR software, and just as importantly...

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Evidence-base Strategies: A Key Part of Community Health Assessments for Public Health

If your county has not conducted a CHA within the last couple of years, here are some changes the North Carolina Institute for Public Health (NCIPH) wants ...

Patagonia Health Highlighted at NACCHO Annual

The National Association of County and City Heath Officials (NACCHO) chose to highlight Patagonia Health’s Electronic Health Record software for local health departments. Listen to Chris Monterra’s roundtable...

Patagonia Health Testimonial

Carol Rose, PHN Supervisor at Beaufort County Health Department, tells how Patagonia Health is an easy-to-use system that gives them their own data source to provide their specific evidence base to drive their practice ...

Patagonia Health Testimonial

Dr. Bianca Rosso, Western Medical Center, talks about the seamless transition to electronic health records, and successfully meeting Meaningful Use objectives using Patagonia Health EHR system ...

Case Studies

Turning Point Family CARE Improves their Operations and Communications with Patagonia Health EHR, Practice Management and Billing Software

Turning Point Family CARE is a critical access behavioral health agency that provides mental health and substance abuse counseling to....

Cleveland County Health Department Shares Proven EHR Implementation Best Practices for a Successful Transition

As with all public health departments, Cleveland County was faced with the task of finding a usable and affordable EHR system. The team at Cleveland Count ...

Patagonia Health’s Built-in Pharmacy App Automates Pharmacy Workflow for Public Health Department at Hoke County

For public health departments and behavioral health agencies, having an in-house pharmacy is an added benefit for the patients they serve. For example, ...

Building a Dashboard App for Local Health Departments

Local Health Department leader’s life just became so much easier. Now, at quick glance, on any device, they can access health department data, in easy-to-view colorful graphs, anytime, and anywhere ...

Beaufort County achieves Meaningful Use compliance

“Part of the reason Patagonia Health was chosen was it was focused on aspects that are unique to public health and they are willing to work with health departments on specific public health needs,” - James ...

Patagonia Health Improves Reimbursement Turnaround and Drives Workflow Efficiencies

“In public health, we have a lot of responsibilities that extend beyond traditional patient care. For example, our needs require a higher number of users ...

Patagonia Health EHR System Brings Continuity of Care

Based on colleagues’ recommendations and a review of competitive solutions, FOCUS Behavioral Health selected the Patagonia Health integrated EHR, practice management and billing solution ...

Cabarrus County Schools Identify Patterns and Increase Response Time with New School Health App

Local Public Health Expert Recognized Issues with School Health Lag Time, Put a Plan in Motion to Alleviate the Problems ...

Expert Interviews

Julia Caplan, MPP, MPH, Program Director, Program Director, Public Health Institute | Health in All Policies (HiAP) Task Force | Office of Health Equity | California Department of Public Health

Julia Caplan shares California’s HiAP Task Force initiative and the correlation of environmental factors on public health.

Marni Mason, BSN, MBA, Healthcare Performance Measurement & Improvement Consultant MarMason Consulting, LLC

Marni Mason discusses the importance of data and teamwork for a successful approach to quality improvement efforts in healthcare environments.

Expert Interview – Rebecca Williams, MHS, PhD, Research Associate, School of Medicine, UNC-Chapel Hill, Cancer Prevention and Control

Rebecca Williams discusses the research, regulations and challenges of e-cigarettes...

Ross D. Martin, MD, MHA, Program Director, Integrated Care Network | CRISP

Ross Martin shares his insights on why Health Information Exchange is in many ways the reason that Electronic Health Records (EHR) need to exist.

Laurie A. Poulin, CPC, Outpatient Coder for Maine Health/MaineMedical Center A Coder’s Perspective:

Veteran ICDcoder, Laurie A. Poulin, shares her perspectives and advice about the transition from ICD-9 to ICD-10. “Electronichealth records are...

Dr. Stephanie Bailey, Dean and Director of Public Health Initiatives, College of Health Sciences, TN State University

When organizations value reflection and learning as part of their cultures, they ensure they don’t lose what’s worked well in the past, while building on fresh, ...

Jan O’Neill, MPA, Community Coach, County Health Rankings & Roadmaps

When organizations value reflection and learning as part of their cultures, they ensure they don’t lose what’s worked well in the past, while building on fresh, new ideas for the future...

Kevin Sherin, MD, MPH, MBA, Health Officer & Director of the Florida Department of Health

Read Dr. Sherin’s views on how mobile technology can increase reach and reduce cost while cloud computing can make health data securem ...

John Graham, PhD, Senior Investigator, NC Institute for Public Health

John Graham stresses the need for providers to more effectively use EHR data to provide them with decision support ...

Dr. Susan Zepeda, President/CEO Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky

Dr. Susan Zepeda encourages the use of EHRs for disease surveillance and improved population health ...

Robert Pestronk, Executive Director, The National Association of County and City Health Officials

Robert Pestronk encourages local health department leaders to learn new vocabularies and learn the language of business, foundations and communities ...

Anna Schenck, Associate Dean for Public Health Practice, UNC Gillings Schools of Global Public Health

“I often say that if there’s someone out there that doesn’t love public health, than they just don’t know us!” Anna Schenck...

Laura Edwards, RN, MPA, Director, Center for Healthy North Carolina

“We need to look outside of our traditional partnerships and consider more non-traditional relationships between the public and private sectors.”...

Matthew Simon, MA, GISP Research Associate, NC Institute for Public Health

Matt Simon, MA, GISP talks about the benefit of using Collect SMART to simplify community surveys through digital data collection and analysis.