About Dr. Stephen Beller
I’m a clinical psychologist, psychotherapist, information technology architect, mathematical modeling/analytics software developer, writer, researcher, and Founder/CEO of National Health Data Systems, Inc. (NHDS).
For the past 40 years, I’ve been working with an international team to develop digital health assessment tools that provide mental/behavioral health practitioners and their clients (patients) with information that builds knowledge to increase clients’ well-being and quality of life.
In the early 1980s, I began developing a digital assessment tool and used it in my psychotherapy practice to collect and analyze client-generated data. I discussed the results with my clients in a collaborative process that supported treatment planning and care delivery decisions. I successfully used that information to assess treatment progress and learn from the outcomes, all decades before other therapists used computers within the therapeutic process.
Then, in 1994, I founded NHDS with a vision to develop innovative health information technologies that enable a measurement-based, client-centric, whole-person, high-value approach to care. I formed a collaborative network of healthcare practitioners, research scientists, and computer technicians who aimed to build a unique digital system that would realize that vision.
I knew it would take considerable time and effort to design and build the necessary technologies to support my vision. So, for the next 25 years, we focused on researching and developing software tools and systems that could securely capture, analyze, and report extensive details about a person’s experiences, mindsets, health, and relationships. This biopsychosocial information builds actionable insights about the cognitive, emotional, behavioral, biomedical, and environmental factors that influence people’s physical and mental health.
We are now focused on implementing the AI-enabled RevealMyWay™ software tools that provide insights and guidance for increasing psychological well-being through self-knowledge and mindset agility. In addition, we are working with a growing alliance of nonprofits and experts in restorative justice to develop next-generation recidivism risk assessment and reduction tools.
I have also created a theory of the human mind and experiences and write about mindsets, the mind-body connection, human nature, consciousness, and cosmology.
More History...
From the late 90s to early 2000, Dr. Beller led the NHDS team into the field of knowledge management. At that time, they built software systems for the company's largest customers, one of which is Fortune 500 company.
In 2005, Dr. Beller re-focused his company on healthcare and began writing his
Curing Healthcare blog. He wrote over 200 posts covering a wide variety of topics about healthcare delivery and value, psychology, psychotherapy, the mind-body connection, information technology, innovation, insurance, research, standards, and more. A list of relevant articles posted and links from 2006 to the present, with descriptions and links, can be accessed
here.
In 2008, NHDS's Hii system was acknowledged in the press as a creative technology built "...from the bottom-up, rather than the top-down...[Whereas] top-down solutions usually get built-out first, because there's motivation to build them...bottom-up solutions challenge them later."
Over the past 10 years, in addition to developing new software products and prototypes, Dr. Beller has been:
- Creating an evolving “biopsychosocial ontology” (set of mind-body health concepts and categories) for building “whole person” knowledge that uses health information technology to support high value measurement-based care
- Publishing papers and making presentations about Hii and Whole Person Integrated Care (WPIC)
- Participating in 5 voluntary Federal workgroups tasked to define health information technical standards
- Participating in the American Medical Association’s discussion forum as a thought leader in behavioral HIT and whole-person care; built a physicians Advisory Board
- Described how to use a novel software system to enable and support the Behavioral Health—Primary Care Integration healthcare delivery model
- Writing in LinkedIn and Medium on a wide variety of topics.
In the past few years, the company's focus has been on modernizing and extending the mental/behavioral health components of the Hii system to create the RevealMyWay™ Wellbeing Enhancement software toolset.
Dr. Beller also studies and writes about the fundamentals of human nature, mind-sets, experience, sense of self, social determinants of health, coping and problem-solving, childhood trauma, cognitive biases, and the integration of different psychotherapeutic approaches.