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Ohio rolls out service to match patients with beds in psychiatric facilities

By Laura Lovett 02:09 pm November 11, 2020

The state of Ohio is aiming to speed up the process of matching patients with behavioral needs to inpatient psychiatric facilities with beds available through an online platform. The state’s Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services is rolling out a new online psychiatric bed registry, dubbed Behavioral Health Connection or B-Con, which was developed to give clinicians a real-time view...

Ohio hosts innovation competition to combat opioid crisis

By Laura Lovett 03:56 pm January 30, 2018

As the opioid epidemic continues to devastate the United States both state and federal agencies are turning to digital health innovators to look for solutions. Most recently, Ohio has hosted the first round of the Ohio Opioid Technology Challenge, which brought innovators from across the country to the state. All of the winners of the first phase used digital health to address the crisis. Ohio...