In the News  |   Jan 20, 2025  |   4 minute read

Celebrating 10-Years of Innovation

We’re celebrating a major milestone here at Greenspace, which is why we’ve welcomed our President & Co-Founder, Simon Weisz, to share his perspective on our journey so far.

Our story started in 2015 out of St Michael’s Hospital, where Jeremy Weisz, Mike Lerner, and I embarked on a mission to meaningfully improve access to high-quality, evidence-based care. We learned about the strong body of evidence demonstrating the impact of Measurement-Based Care (MBC) on service quality, and set out on a mission to develop industry leading technology that would make the proliferation of MBC across any care setting low burden and high impact for organizations, providers, and their clients.

Since, we’ve partnered with over 500 organizations across North America to support their implementation of MBC, enhancing treatment delivery for more than 15,000 clinicians and 500,000 individuals in care. With more than 3M assessments completed, we’re seeing a 49% average symptom improvement and 81% average therapeutic alliance across all of the organizations we support.

A decade later, our vision remains the same: To empower mental health service providers and users with the technology, tools, and insights they need to ensure that every person who accesses mental health services receives high quality care that helps them thrive.

In celebration of this milestone, we wanted to reflect on a few of the major advancements and accomplishments our team has delivered over the last 10 years (and provide an impactful offer to those considering implementing MBC!), from intuitive technology enhancements to state-wide implementations to industry-wide educational opportunities:

Coordinated MBC Implementations

In 2020, we launched our coordinated pilot implementation in partnership with the Community Behavioral Health Association of Maryland (MDCBH). Greenspace’s clinical MBC platform has since been implemented across 27 clinics as part of this project, including nearly 1000 clinicians who support more than 20,000 clients across Maryland.

We’ve since launched a number of other state and association-based coordinated implementations, focused on driving significant improvements in behavioral healthcare quality and collaboration amongst service organizations. To date, these providers have seen a 44% average symptom improvement and 82% average therapeutic alliance.

Accelerating Adoption through Integrations

We know that integrations are a top priority for many organizations, which is why over the last few years, we’ve meaningfully expanded our EMR/EHR integration partnerships and capabilities in order to enable clinical teams to more easily implement MBC. We’ve enabled integrations with EHR’s such as Welligent, EMHware, Qualifacts, Netsmart, and more—with the goal of empowering our partners to more effectively engage in MBC.

For example, our partners at Merakey have an active integration with Netsmart myAvatar. The integration empowers Merakey staff with a seamless experience, where clients are automatically created and updated in Greenspace with appropriate tags, kiosk codes, and demographics directly from their EHR. Clinicians can also launch the Greenspace results page with client insights, symptom scores, and data visualization directly from myAvatar. The integration also enables the transfer of discrete data from Greenspace to the EHR, which fulfills reporting and auditing requirements across the organizations.

Setting The Standard for Population-Wide Mental Health Support

Years ago, we began exploring how the clinical benefits of MBC could be adapted to a self-guided, population health model. By addressing mental health needs proactively, our approach sought to enhance overall population wellness while reducing reliance on in-person and crisis services. Since our first implementation with Health Canada, our Population Health solution has been adopted by governing bodies, educational institutions, corporations, and more. With average symptom improvement at 19%, and 70% of users choosing to access self-guided resources over 1:1 care, the platform is making a significant impact. You can learn about our Population Health platform here, or read this case study from our implementation with Health Canada.

MBC Education

As with any major change or innovative approach, prioritizing education to ensure all people understand the impact and approach to implementation for MBC is essential. Over the last four years, we’ve had over 7000 providers and clinical leaders register for our virtual educational sessions, in partnership with the world’s leading behavioral health and MBC experts. We’ve worked with experts such as Brent Mallinckrodt, the author of the BR-WAI, Dr. David Clark, who led the world’s largest implementation of MBC across the entirety of the UK’s National Health Service (NHS Talking Therapies), and have an ongoing educational partnership with the brilliant minds and experts behind the Yale MBC Collaborative (check out our Yale MBC Knowledge Hub for helpful MBC education, insights, trainings and tips).

A School-Based Revolution

We’ve partnered with more than 20 school districts in the last 18 months alone, and have launched projects that are setting a new standard for school-based mental health supports and services for all students through our Population Health platform—like our Brightpath Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) project in Cecil County, Maryland. The momentum for MBC in school-based services is a clear indication of the scalability and impact of MBC across any care setting. We’re excited to see how school-based mental health services continue to innovate, and we’re looking forward to the unique service settings our journey takes us to next.

MBC 2.0

Our biggest launch of 2024: Our MBC 2.0 platform offers enhanced measurement capabilities, AI driven automated insights, workflow automation and intelligence, and a host of other high-impact advancements. We started with MBC Benchmarks and Insights, and are actively working on releasing more features to our partners, like Caseload Assistant and more (coming soon). MBC 2.0 reflects our brand promise that ‘our solutions improve everyday’. We are never complacent, we listen to user feedback carefully and work diligently to ensure our MBC technology stays best-in-class and empowers all providers to offer the highest possible quality of care.

Data-Driven Results

The outcome data speaks for itself. With over 500 implementations and 5 million assessments completed on Greenspace, we know that MBC has significant impact on client outcomes, therapeutic alliance, and overall quality of care across all care settings. Dive into the latest in Greenspace’s data with our 2024 MBC Wrapped Article.

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Wrapping up

Greenspace remains dedicated to driving the ongoing innovation and continued advancement of Measurement-Based Care. Beyond the research, we have seen the impact that MBC has across our industry firsthand, from individual clinicians and small clinics, to hospitals, schools boards, and entire health systems. As we look ahead, we’re more inspired than ever to continue building meaningful partnerships, enhancing our platforms, and delivering innovative features that make MBC seamless and impactful for providers, clients, and clinical leaders alike.

To our clinical partners: thank you. Your dedication to delivering exceptional care and continuously striving for better outcomes is the foundation of everything we do. Your collaboration, passion, and vision fuel our work, and we are truly honored to partner with you on this journey.

Celebrating 10 Years of Impact

In celebration of our 10 year anniversary and to enable more organizations to kickstart 2025 with evidence-based care, we’re offering a special promotion for organizations new to Greenspace. From January 13th to March 31st, we’re waiving all implementation fees and providing no-cost integration with leading EHR systems, including Welligent, Netsmart, Qualifacts, EPIC, and more.

Learn More

Don’t require EHR integration? Contact us to learn about additional discounts available during this celebration. We’d love to discuss how Greenspace can support your team.