Mental Health Charting
Improve Compliance
Reduce Documentation Time
ICANotes is the most clinically robust mental health charting solution, with pre-configured intuitive note templates for all disciplines and settings. Create comprehensive:
- Initial Assessments
- Progress Notes
- Group Therapy Notes
- Treatment Plans
- Discharge Summaries
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Improved Note Content
Content specific to mental health is arranged in clinically logical ways. A thorough and individualized narrative note can be created quickly just by clicking buttons with no typing required. Progress notes can be created in just 2 to 3 minutes.
Click through each subject to find out how ICANotes' mental health charting software can work for your specific areas of expertise. Mental health charting examples are available in each subject area.
Why Mental Health Charting is Important
Even the sharpest mind can't remember every detail about every client. That's why writing high-quality notes is so important for you, your patients, and your practice.
Detailed notes are vital for effective mental health charting, empowering clinicians to provide the best possible care. Thorough documentation ensures that you can communicate clearly and effectively with your patients, your team, and any external professionals involved in your client's care. By maintaining clear, concise, and comprehensive charts, you make it easier to track treatment progress and make informed decisions.
Within your practice, well-documented charts allow all members of a patient's treatment team to stay informed and aligned. These records are also invaluable when collaborating with other healthcare providers who may be treating the patient for different conditions. Clear communication ensures that every healthcare professional involved is on the same page, providing your patients with cohesive and coordinated care.
Optimal Efficiency and Quality
ICANotes mental health charting software can cut the time you spend writing notes without sacrificing any of the quality.
Our system is primarily menu-driven, meaning we offer pre-populated content buttons that you can click to quickly document diagnoses, symptoms, observations, treatment options, and other data in your notes. You can also create your own clickable content buttons to address each client's unique needs if you find that you are adding the same information repeatedly.
Though our system is set up to require minimal typing, you can also free-type into the text field at any time if you feel there's something to include that isn't covered by an existing button.
The notes you write for each patient can be linked back to other notes in their file, including treatment plans and previous notes that may indicate progress or regression from one session to the next. This mental health charting feature provides a full picture of how each patient is doing over time and is useful for therapists, counselors, psychologists, psychiatrists, psychiatric nurse practitioners, social workers, case managers, and psychiatric rehabilitation specialists.
In these ways, ICANotes allow you to take complete, concise, and effective notes in a fraction of the time other systems may require. Additionally, because your notes are written virtually and saved into our mental health charting software, they can be easily accessed by other clinicians in your practice, exported to patient portals, or shared with external doctors who are providing concurrent treatment.
Easy Cures Act Compliance
In 2016, the U.S. government passed the 21st Century Cures Act. This act contains an information-blocking rule that requires medical professionals to give clients online access to their information, including medical records, test results, and various types of patient notes such as consultation notes, discharge summary notes, and progress notes.
Some types of notes, including those pertaining to psychotherapy and those that may pose a risk to patients, can be withheld by clinicians.
The deadline for healthcare providers to be in compliance with this rule is April 5, 2021. While some types of notes may be exempt, you will likely need to make sure the rest of your notes are available to remain in compliance.
When you use ICANotes mental health charting software, you can trust that your digital notes will be shareable with your clients and meet the new regulations.
Intuitive Mental Health Charting with ICANotes
ICANotes was developed with the specific needs of mental health professionals in mind. We designed our comprehensive suite of mental health charting and practice management solutions to help you maintain the most efficient, optimized practice possible so that you can focus on caring for your clients.
Valerie Barfield
APRN, GNP-BC, Sage Lifecare, Memphis, TN
"ICANotes creates a narrative note that is readable and thorough. I get lots of compliments on my documentation and I feel more confident in my coding.”
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