One of the biggest barriers to effectively implementing measurement-informed care is provider and patient participation. Assigning and following up with patients to ensure intake, screeners, and symptom-tracking are completed during scheduled intervals can be time consuming for already stretched providers. Similarly, patients and their caregivers have limited bandwidth to regularly respond to assigned screeners and tracking.
Measurement-informed care requires consistent and timely patient/caregiver input. A meta-analysis1 of 51 randomized controlled trials found that nearly all studies that used routine symptom tracking reported significantly improved outcomes, while one-time or infrequent measurement-informed care screenings delivered minimal clinical value.
The Trayt Health platform integrates measurement-informed workflows that result in high provider and patient participation to effectively and efficiently capture patient-reported symptom data, curated into actionable insights for providers.
Trayt Health shared these technology solutions at the 2025 American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) Annual Meeting. Trayt technology was featured across multiple presentations, each highlighting different aspects of how Trayt technology leverages measurement-informed care to engage providers and patients and their caregivers for improved and measurable outcomes.
Tray Health’s solution on display
In the Trayt Health booth, measurement-informed technology solutions and metrics were on display. Trayt Health recently surpassed 500,000 standardized measurement-informed screeners, tied to over 20 state-level behavioral health programs.
Based on patient digital intake and automated screeners and symptom tracking, the Trayt platform generates insights summarized in progress charts to show patient improvement or need for treatment adjustment. Additional treatment side effects or comorbidities can be automatically monitored and tracked. Updates to medication and therapy are updated from concise behavioral health workflows that make follow-up straightforward.
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Ensuring higher measurement-informed care participation
Abigail Koch, PhD, presented a poster alongside John Shotwell, MD, University of Texas, on Trayt Health’s automated screener feature and how automation significantly increases patient participation.
Koch serves as Trayt’s Director of Population Health & Analytics. Her presented research evaluated whether automating standardized behavioral health screeners improved patient participation. Koch’s evaluation found that automation led to significant increases in screener participation; including:
- Completion before intake – screener completion prior to the first clinical appointment.
- Same-day completion – screeners completed on the day they were assigned.
- Time to completion – days elapsed between assignment and completion.
Trayt’s platform offers more than 30 evidence-based behavioral health screeners and assessments. Providers can securely send screeners to patients or caregivers in HIPAA-compliant formats, with language preferences applied as needed.
Once assigned, follow-up is fully automated by Trayt Health with best-practice reminder intervals to improve completion rates without increasing clinician workload. Results are returned in a concise, review-ready format that allows clinicians to track trends and identify concerns before the visit.
Measurement-informed care across Texas
In a session chaired by Dr. Shotwell a panel discussed the evidence for using measurement-informed care in behavioral health. Panelists included Sarah Mallard Wakefield, MD, Texas Tech, Alcides Amador, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, and Jasmine Liu-Zarzuela, MD, MPH, University of Texas Southwestern.
All panelists utilize Trayt Health’s platform to conduct measurement-informed care within the state of Texas. Trayt Health’s consultation, intervention, measurement, and insights solutions are leveraged across the state’s 12 behavioral health hubs to better coordinate care and deliver measurement-informed care to pediatric and perinatal populations.
The panel reinforced the benefits of measurement-informed care at the patient and program level.
Conclusion
Trayt Health is focused on expanding measurement-informed care through better automation and integration. To learn how our solutions can help your program, contact us here.
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