Guides for Psychiatrists
Practical, in-depth guides covering EMR selection, EPCS compliance, telepsychiatry, and practice technology decisions that affect your daily workflow.
The 2026 DEA Telemedicine Extension: What Year-to-Year Controlled Substance Flexibilities Mean for Your Practice
If you prescribe stimulants, benzodiazepines, or buprenorphine to patients you see only over video, the most important regulatory news of the year arrived quietly on the last day of December. The DEA, working with HHS, issued a fourth temporary exten...
Buying GuideBest EMR for Psychiatrists in 2026: A Comprehensive Buying Guide
Choosing an EMR for your psychiatry practice is one of the most consequential technology decisions you will make, and the stakes are higher than most vendors acknowledge. The wrong system does not just create minor inconveniences. It fundamentally ch...
ComplianceEPCS Setup Guide: E-Prescribing Controlled Substances for Psychiatrists
Electronic prescribing of controlled substances is no longer optional for most psychiatric practices. The majority of states now mandate EPCS for Schedule II through V medications, and even in states where it remains voluntary, the practical advantag...
Practice BuildingBuilding a Telepsychiatry Practice: The Complete Tech Stack
Telepsychiatry has evolved from a pandemic necessity to a permanent feature of the psychiatric practice landscape, with most surveys indicating that psychiatrists now conduct between 30% and 70% of their patient encounters virtually. Building a telep...
Practice BuildingSolo Psychiatry Practice: Choosing Your EMR
Starting or running a solo psychiatry practice means wearing every hat simultaneously. You are the clinician, the business owner, the IT department, the billing specialist, and the compliance officer all at once. Your EMR needs to support all of thes...
Practice ManagementPrior Authorization Survival Guide for Psychiatrists
If you have ever spent twenty minutes on hold with a pharmacy benefit manager while your next patient waits, or discovered that a medication you prescribed three months ago was silently denied at the pharmacy counter, or found yourself dictating the ...
Clinical PracticeDocumentation Best Practices for Psychiatric Encounters: Balancing Thoroughness and Efficiency
Documentation is the silent burden of psychiatric practice. Unlike procedural specialties where a note can follow a relatively predictable template, psychiatric encounters demand a documentation approach that captures clinical nuance, supports treatm...
ComparisonRating Scale Integration: Which EMRs Support PHQ-9, GAD-7, and Other Psychiatric Measures Natively?
Standardized rating scales are the backbone of measurement-based psychiatric care, and the gap between knowing you should use them and actually using them consistently often comes down to how well your EMR integrates them into your clinical workflow....
Buying GuideBest EMR for New Psychiatry Practices: Your First-Year Technology Guide
Opening your own psychiatry practice is one of the most professionally rewarding decisions you can make, and also one of the most overwhelming. The technology choices you face in those first months carry disproportionate weight because the systems yo...
Workflow AnalysisHow Telepsychiatry Has Reshaped EHR Requirements for Modern Psychiatric Practice
The integration of telepsychiatry into routine practice is one of the most durable changes the pandemic introduced into psychiatric care, and it has subtly but significantly changed what a psychiatric EHR needs to do well. A decade ago, the EHR conve...
Practice BuildingThe Economics of EMR Selection for the Small Psychiatry Practice
There is a quiet truth among psychiatrists running small practices that very few EMR vendors are willing to discuss honestly, which is that the EMR you choose is not primarily a clinical tool but a financial one. The clinical features of any modern p...
WorkflowThe FMLA and Disability Paperwork Problem in Psychiatry, and What Auto-Fill Actually Solves
Almost no part of psychiatric practice is more reliably underestimated than the burden of FMLA, short-term disability, ADA accommodation, and similar work-related paperwork. The forms themselves look manageable on first inspection, the requests arriv...