Using Innerlife STS

The Innerlife STS System is a cloud-based platform for Treatment Reports, Analytics, Outcome Tracking, and Documentation for mental health care. Innerlife STS creates and composes conceptualized narratives and builds them into professional-grade reports. These reports are designed for use by primary care physicians, mental health clinicians, and justice system professionals and include Mental Health Assessment Reports, Mental Health Treatment Reports, and Forensic Evaluation Reports. This page explains how the various different professionals might use The Innerlife STS System .

Mental Health Professionals

The Innerlife STS System is an cloud mobile clinical platform that includes a knowledge-based, expert system that is designed for use by mental health clinicians in a clinical setting. It guides the clinician's thinking about how best to prescribe mental health treatment for a particular patient. The core algorithm of the Innerlife STS System is based on empirically-derived treatment scales and has been demonstrated to improve treatment outcomes significantly compared to treatment as usual.

Patients can take all of their assessments using the Innerlife STS cloud mobile platform. They can either use the STS Patient Client mobile app for iPhone and iPad, or they can use the web-based patient app on innerlife.com. Either app works for both the initial (intake) assessment and for follow-up assessments and the two apps can be used interchangeably throughout the course of treatment. The Innerlife STS System automatically tracks the patient's progress in all primary symptom areas and in all secondary symptom measures for which the patient tested at clinically significant levels upon their first assessment.

Patients can download the STS Patient Client Mobile App
for iPhone and iPad by searching "STS Patient Client" in the
Apple App Store.

What does the Innerlife STS System deliver for the Mental Health Professional?
The Innerlife STS System:

Automatically generates a professional-grade narrative Treatment Report including Symptom Graphs for 22 symptom categories, personality traits, and susceptibility to minority stress
Tracks treatment outcomes over the full treatment lifetime of clients
The STS Patient Client mobile app automatically reminds patients when to take their update assessments.
Stores historical assessment data and reports and outcomes to fully support audits
Enables mental health professionals to spend more face time with their patients by reducing overhead resource requirements.

Why should mental health professionals use the Innerlife STS System?
Mental health professionals should use the Innerlife STS for the following reasons:

Both governments and insurance companies increasingly require tracking of mental health treatment outcomes.
The Innerlife STS System is well-suited for this purpose and tracks treatment outcomes over the full treatment lifetime of clients.
Both governments and insurance companies increasingly reserve the right to audit health care reimbursements for up to ten years into the past. The Innerlife STS System ensures airtight clinical consistency, quality, and adherence to reimbursement rules and guidelines put in place by governments and insurance companies. The Innerlife STS System stores historical assessment reports and outcomes to fully support audits.
The Innerlife STS System enables the clinician to more economically generate a mental health assessment that is more accurate, more personalized, and more effective.
The legal and law enforcement system often requires “Courtroom Grade” psychological evaluations. The psychological evaluations generated by the Innerlife STS System are designed to meet this discriminating standard.

Medical Professionals and Clinics

Medical professionals are normally the first professionals that patients turn to when faced with any sort of health condition. This is because most health conditions manifest as physical ailments. Many or most health conditions and diseases have a mental component -- especially cancer, diabetes, and substance addiction. Sadly, many medical clinics do not have a mental health clinician on staff. And, it is often not standard protocol to investigate how a physical manifestation of a devastating health condition might have mental origins.

Innerlife STS addresses this problem by offering an easy and cost-effective system that medical professionals and clinics can use to quickly and inexpensively assess any patient's mental health status when facing the possibility that a disease condition may have mental origins or components. Medical doctors and their clinics can take all of their assessments using the Innerlife STS cloud mobile platform. They can just simply tell their patients to download the STS Patient Client Mobile App from the Apple App Store, log in, and respond to the items that come to the screen. Once assessed, the medical professional or clinic will have a full mental health assessment of the patient in their Innerlife STS Clinician Account. It is easy, fast, and inexpensive. And, the STS Patient Client Mobile App will automatically remind the patient when to take their update assessment without even involving their doctor.

What does the Innerlife STS System deliver for the Medical Professionals and Clinics?

The Innerlife STS System:

Automatically, instantaneously, and inexpensively assesses and evaluates patients to determine their mental health status.
Acts as an "in-house" mental health care professional
Gives doctors insight into how a health condition that manifests as physical might have a mental health component
The STS Patient Client mobile app automatically reminds patients when to take their update assessments.
Enables medical doctors and clinics to be more both more productive, more comprehensive, and more effective.

Health Care Research Professionals and Programs

Health Care Research professionals and programs need convincing and persuasive data on human subjects in order to arrive at and support their research conclusions. In addition, academic journals normally require a preponderance of complelling data in order for a body of health care research to be publishable. But, collecting what normally seems like a mountain of data can be highly labor intensive and, therefore, highly expensive.

Innerlife STS addresses this problem by offering an easy and cost-effective system that health care research professionals and programs can use to inexpensively and automatically gather data on human subjects over any period of time. This can dramatically reduce the number of people and amount of money needed to produce a a body of health care research that is worthy of publishing. In addition, it enables researchers to gather many dimensions of data which might uncover research stunning research conclusions that may never have been imagined. Innerlife STS is a productivity tool for health care research that holds the potential to revolutionize health care research and to speed the pace of scientific discovery through research into human health. This is a big contribution to both health care research and to humanity in general.

What does the Innerlife STS System deliver for Health Care Research Professionals and Programs?

The Innerlife STS System:

Automatically, instantaneously, and inexpensively collects research data on human subjects.
Dramatically reduce the number of people and amount of money needed to produce a a body of health care research that is worthy of publishing
Enables researchers to gather many dimensions of data which might uncover research stunning research conclusions that may never have been imagined..

Professors and Graduate Programs

Health care professional programs can be extraordinarily expensive for students. So, Professors and graduate programs are always in need of cost-effective tools to train the next generation of health care professionals. Innerlife STS addresses this problem by offering an easy and cost-effective system that professors and graduate programs can use to inexpensively and automatically teach students about mental health assessment and patient patient personality evaluation. This can dramatically reduce the amount of resources needed to train a cohort of students studying to be the next generation of health care professionals. This is a big contribution to both the people who will work in the health care field and and to human health in general.

What does the Innerlife STS System deliver for Professors and Graduate Programs?
The Innerlife STS System:

Provides a hands-on, real-world tool for students to learn an important aspect of their chosen health care profession.
Dramatically reduce the cost of teaching the next generation of health care professionals
Enables professors and universities to more effectively prepare their students for the health care world without making a substantial financial investment.

Justice System Professionals

Justice system professionals -- including both lawyers and judges -- often need professional-grade mental health assessments of defendants. Retaining an outside mental health expert can be both expensive and time-consuming. Innerlife STS addresses this problem by offering an easy and cost-effective system justice system professionals to determine the mental health status of a defendant. This can dramatically reduce the number of people and amount of money needed to arrive at a fair and apprpriate legal outcome for court processes. In addition, it enables judges and attorneys to implement mental health assessments and screening as a routine step in the process without having to run up the cost of due process. This leads to a less expensive way to have a fairer legal system and justice for all.

What does the Innerlife STS System deliver for Justice System Professionals?
Justice system professionals should use the Innerlife STS for the following reasons:

The legal and law enforcement system often requires “Professional Grade” psychological evaluations and reports. The Treatment Report generated by the Innerlife STS System is designed to meet this discriminating standard.
Legal and court processes require tracking of mental health treatment outcomes. The Innerlife STS System tracks patient symptom categories throughout the course of treatment.
The Innerlife STS System dramatically reduces the costs and amount of work needed for professional-grade mental health assessment of defendants.
The Innerlife STS System is easy to use and does not require an expert.