C14 - Closing the Technology Gap: How AI is Redefining Behavioral Health Care

Monday, April 27, 2026

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM MDT

Location: 201

Behavioral health is experiencing both growth and strain. Rising prevalence, increased treatment participation, and expanded investment have moved the field forward, yet staffing shortages, clinician burnout, and escalating documentation and reporting demands continue to constrain access and sustainability. As care delivery grows more complex, technology has not always kept pace—creating a gap where operational inefficiency becomes a clinical risk.

This continuing education session examines why better technology is now a clinical imperative in behavioral healthcare. Featuring expert perspectives from provider, vendor, technology, and compliance leaders—including executive-level voices—the panel explores how next-generation, clinician-centered AI can reduce administrative burden while preserving clinical judgment, ethics, and human connection.

Participants will discover how legacy systems often increase documentation workload without improving outcomes visibility, and how emerging AI capabilities—particularly large language models (LLMs)—can responsibly support intake, documentation, workflow automation, analytics, and outcomes reporting when embedded directly into clinical workflows. The session also addresses trust, transparency, and safeguards, reinforcing the role of AI as a tool to augment—not replace—clinical decision-making and expand sustainable clinical capacity.

Learning Objectives:

Explore how LLMs can increase the efficiency of intake, documentation and more.
Analyze the improved outcomes that are seen by organizations that successfully implement AI systems into their workflows.
Address the safeguards that can be put in place to give organizations trust in the role AI is playing.

Disclosure(s):

Josh Schoeller: No relevant disclosure to display

Breakout Presenter(s)

Jeremy Attermann, LGSW/CAPM

Manager, Business & Strategy
National Council for Mental Wellbeing
Washington, District of Columbia

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Josh Schoeller

CEO
Qualifacts
Nashville, Tennessee

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BB

Bryan Baucom, MBA

Chief Information Officer
Centerstone
Springfield, Missouri

Disclosure information not submitted.
MD

Mike DeKock

Founder and CEO
MJD Advisors

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CA

Chaitanya Adabala Viswa

Managing Director
Warburg Pincus

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