Ed Jones, PhD

Perspectives

Finding the Front Door To Digitally Supported Healthcare

11/01/2021

The entry point to healthcare has long been primary care, but digital companies are now clamoring to be the new front door. This poses a choice with major consequences.

The entry point to healthcare...

11/01/2021

Behavioral Healthcare Executive

Perspectives

Medical Collaboration is Behavioral Healthcare's Defining Challenge

07/26/2022

Ed Jones , PhD;

Chris Dennis , MD;

Our field should be grappling with how to integrate people and systems so that medical-behavioral collaboration is a resounding success. Multiple factors, however, are creating distractions from these issues.

Our field should be grappling...

07/26/2022

Behavioral Healthcare Executive

Perspectives

Every Outpatient Clinic Can Use This Playbook to Outperform Specialty Programs

02/28/2023

Ed Jones , PhD;

The medical model starts with a diagnosis, and so we presume a program with diagnosis-based solutions will perform best. Those assumptions do not always hold in our field. Can we design a hypothetical general clinic that could outperform a...

The medical model starts with a...

02/28/2023

Behavioral Healthcare Executive

Perspectives

New Thinking Is a Prerequisite to Fixing Primary Care’s Therapist Shortage

12/04/2023

Ed Jones , PhD;

Behavioral health services are failing to meet the scale and variety of needs found in primary care. While this perception is widely shared in healthcare, little urgency is evident to get to the root of the problem.

Behavioral health services are...

12/04/2023

Behavioral Healthcare Executive

Perspectives

Digital Health Will Disrupt Outpatient Care as Usual

05/24/2021

Ed Jones , PhD;

The behavioral healthcare industry will probably be disrupted by the rise of telehealth services, but this is not to say traditional services will disappear. It is more likely that our current configuration of services will change.

The behavioral healthcare...

05/24/2021

Behavioral Healthcare Executive

Perspectives

Inserting Health Behaviors Into the Scope of Psychotherapy: From Eating to Total Health

01/31/2022

Ed Jones , PhD;

Weight is not an indication for psychotherapy, but it is among the reasons people seek help. How should therapy approach this issue?

Weight is not an indication for...

01/31/2022

Behavioral Healthcare Executive

Perspectives

Behavioral Tech May Be Indispensable, But Is It Self-Sufficient?

09/26/2022

Ed Jones , PhD;

Technology is an indispensable part of healthcare. This is true even for fields built on personal connection and communication. The key question is how much autonomy we should give technology.

Technology is an indispensable...

09/26/2022

Behavioral Healthcare Executive

Perspectives

Recognize Implications of Prioritizing Access to Behavioral Services as Top Goal

05/15/2023

Ed Jones , PhD;

Ranking priorities entails moving some important goals to secondary status. While no person or entity actually ranks our field’s priorities, we should candidly recognize the implications of choosing our goals.

Ranking priorities entails...

05/15/2023

Behavioral Healthcare Executive

Perspectives

Conceptual Errors Committed in the Name of Science

08/23/2021

Ed Jones , PhD;

Science gives us powerful ways for understanding and changing the world. This power sadly makes it ripe for fraud and abuse.

Science gives us powerful ways...

08/23/2021

Behavioral Healthcare Executive

Perspectives

Creating and Sustaining Transformative Products Requires Dynamic Leaders

04/18/2022

Ed Jones , PhD;

Investors may fund a promising idea to improve behavioral healthcare, but a payer must agree to its long-term promise. Our field needs executives who can navigate these waters.

Investors may fund a promising...

04/18/2022

Behavioral Healthcare Executive