Primary Care Physicians & Direct Primary Care

Primary Care Physicians are this country’s first line of defense in the mental health crisis, yet are often under-equipped with mental-health tools and do not have time to be a patients therapist, psychiatrist and PCP.

Ellipsas was developed by psychiatrists to ease the burden by enabling PCPs provide integrated care by efficiently collaborating with other mental-health specialists to develop and monitor a patient’s mental health progress through accurate, real-time data.

As many as 70% of primary care visits are driven by patients’ psychological problems, such as anxiety, panic, depression, and stress. (1)

Improve Patient Outcomes

 

Screen Patients for Untreated/Undiagnosed Mental Health Conditions

Identify and track patients who are suffering from an undiagnosed mental-health condition. Mental Health Care at the primary setting can offset costs by 20 to 40 percent.

Increase Patient Awareness on their Mental Health

Validate patient feelings, ameliorate their self-blame, help them better understand mental health disorders, their triggers and fluctuations in their symptom severity(4), resulting in feelings of optimism, hopefulness and adherence.

Improve Treatment Success of Other Conditions

Co-occurring mental disorders such as anxiety and depression can worsen chronic diseases such as diabetes, obesity, asthma, cancer and cardiovascular disease. (2-6)

Monitor Patient Mental Health Treatments

Make real-time clinical decisions to develop targeted and customized treatment plans by tracking patient biomarkers.

Increase Patient Trust in Providers

Increase patient trust in the clinical judgement and commitment of their health team.

Optimize Practice Efficiency & Profitablity

Mitigate Risk

Proactively identify and refer high-risk, high-complexity patients to specialized care.

Integrate Care

Streamline communication & unify multi-disciplinary care team treatment support.

Bill with Data-Driven Documentation

Decrease Payor denials and need for appeals with data-driven, clinical documentation.

  1. Hunter, C. L., Goodie, J. L., Oordt, M. S., & Dobmeyer, A. C. (2009). Integrated behavioral health in primary care: Step-by-step guidance for assessment and intervention. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

  2. Everson-Rose, S. A., & Lewis, T. T. (2005). Psychosocial factors and cardiovascular diseases. Annual Review of Public Health, 26, 469-500.

  3. Jiang, W., & Davidson, J. R. (2005). Antidepressant therapy in patients with ischemic heart disease. American Heart Journal, 150, 871-881.

  4. Luppino, F. S., de Wit, L. M., Bouvy, P. F., Stijnen, T., Cuijpers, P., Penninx, B. W. J. H. et al. (2010). Overweight, obesity, and depression: A systematic review and meta-analysis of longitudinal studies. Journal of the American Medical Association, 67, 220- 229.

  5. Prince, M., Patel, V., Saxena, S., Maj, M., Maselko, J., Phillips, M.R., et al. (2007). No health without mental health. The Lancet, 370, 859-877.

  6. Kullowatz, A., Kanniess, F., Dahme, B., Magnussen, H., & Ritz, T. (2007). Association of depression and anxiety with health care use and quality of life in asthma patients. Respiratory Medicine, 101, 638-644.