Ed Jones, PhD

Perspectives

We Must Build a Reservoir of Trust with Big Medicine

07/13/2021

Behavioral healthcare will be properly valued and funded only if persuasive leaders make our case. Building trust is job one.

Behavioral healthcare will be...

07/13/2021

Behavioral Healthcare Executive

Perspectives

Will Healthcare Technology Prove to Be a Failure of Imagination?

02/07/2022

Ed Jones , PhD;

Telehealth, digital health, and virtual health are ubiquitous today. Healthcare investors think they have a big winner. Do they, or are they betting on the next big healthcare disappointment? The concern is not the technology itself. It is...

Telehealth, digital health, and...

02/07/2022

Behavioral Healthcare Executive

Perspectives

Executives Should Scrutinize Research Data Like Their Financial Data

11/07/2022

Ed Jones , PhD;

Successful executives understand their company’s financial statements. They should have a similar comfort level with research studies and statistics. It is part of being data-driven.

Successful executives understand...

11/07/2022

Behavioral Healthcare Executive

Perspectives

Recognize Value of Online Debate Given Our Field’s Sprawling Accountability

07/10/2023

Ed Jones , PhD;

Communicating in public forums has unseen power, often serving as a vehicle for good ideas to amass support. This is where we should turn to promote a better future for the behavioral healthcare field.

Communicating in public forums...

07/10/2023

Behavioral Healthcare Executive

Perspectives

Our New Rallying Cry: 'No Primary Care Without Behavioral Care'

09/27/2021

Ed Jones , PhD;

Clinical care changes when primary care physicians and therapists come together to realize behavior is ubiquitous, and it plays a role in either exacerbating or ameliorating every diagnosis in primary care.

Clinical care changes when...

09/27/2021

Behavioral Healthcare Executive

Perspectives

Value-Based Care has Loyalty, but It Needs More Clarity

06/06/2022

Ed Jones , PhD;

Expectations for value-based care need tempering. Advocates often seem more passionate than one might expect over a financial model. Healthcare funding always involves difficult trade-offs, and that includes the value-based structure.

Expectations for value-based...

06/06/2022

Behavioral Healthcare Executive

Perspectives

Tailor Our Field’s Identity With Measurement-Based Care

10/11/2022

Ed Jones , PhD;

It is time for our field to establish a coherent identity. This might seem challenging given our diverse problems, services, and perspectives, yet we can integrate all of this into a comprehensible whole.

It is time for our field to...

10/11/2022

Behavioral Healthcare Executive

Perspectives

Rethinking Early Interventions for SUD an Urgent Cause

10/23/2023

Ed Jones , PhD;

Our executives must start the long, collaborative process of making primary care the frontline for behavioral health interventions.

Our executives must start the...

10/23/2023

Behavioral Healthcare Executive

Perspectives

Our Best Executives Must Lead Medical-Behavioral Integration

12/13/2021

Ed Jones , PhD;

Business experts tell us that we cannot manage what we do not measure. It is also clear that we will misunderstand what we mismeasure. Behavioral healthcare is always needing to prove its worth. It is time to offer medical systems a new value...

Business experts tell us that we...

12/13/2021

Behavioral Healthcare Executive

Perspectives

Beyond Integrated: "Inseparable" a More Accurate Reflection of Our Services

08/29/2022

Ed Jones , PhD;

Integrated care tries to unite systems long treated as unequal. Evidence of their equality is growing and requires a new start. Reform should begin with the premise that medical and behavioral care are inseparable.

Integrated care tries to unite...

08/29/2022

Behavioral Healthcare Executive