The Process of Enhanced Referral

This brief video explains the process of enhanced referral to improve patient engagement and completion of the referral and improve provider relationships with referrals. Presented by Dr. Lori Raney, Principal, Health Management Associates.

Quick Guide: Building Partnerships to Enhance Care Coordination

This is a short reference guide to developing a structure to enhance the referral experience for providers and service recipients. It covers setting standards for partnership starting with your value proposition. It outlines the continuum of provider relationships from informal agreements through forming a business entity and finally provides initial guidance and further resources for establishing care compacts.
Best Practices in Videoconferencing-Based Telemental Health

Best Practices in Videoconferencing-Based Telemental Health

This document represents a collaboration between the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) to create a consolidated update of the previous APA and ATA official documents and resources in telemental health to provide a...

Advancing Integration of General Health in Behavioral Health Settings a Continuum-Based Framework

There is a need for an organizing model that assists practices and policy-makers to prioritize the steps of integration implementation and the need for both technical assistance and funding for key program elements. In order to advance evidence-based integration of general health care in BH settings, clinics have become intensely interested in the underlying steps they can take to implement and advance specific general health practices. Based on a targeted literature review and input from diverse stakeholders, the framework presented in this report seeks to provide BH clinics and other organizing entities, such as New York State's (NYS) Behavioral Health Care Collaboratives (BHCC) and Behavioral Health Independent Practice Associations (IPA), with practical guidance using a continuum-based road map approach on the intentional and incremental steps to achieve and advance key subdomains of integrated care for community BH clinics.

Advancing Integration of Behavioral Health into Primary Care: A Continuum-Based Framework (for Primary Care Practices)

What is less clear has been how to accomplish that at scale, given the varying types of primary care practices and, in particular, the resource limitations of small and medium-size practices and the complexity of the models that are currently the evidence-based standards for integrating medical and behavioral care. This framework seeks to fill that gap by delineating a series of steps that providers can take to move toward the integration of behavioral health services into their primary care practices.

Dimensions: Tobacco Free Toolkit for Health Care

The toolkit contains a variety of information and resources including a step by step guide about: education about tobacco use skills for engaging people in tobacco cessation discussions efficient methods for assessing readiness to quit information and research on treatments

Peers Speak Out: Priority Outcomes for Substance Use Treatment & Services

The research presented by these three groups seeks to prioritize desired treatment outcomes as defined by diverse people with lived experience. From this information, the researchers crafted recommendations that could help policymakers, providers and researchers develop, implement, reimburse and evaluate more engaging and perhaps effective substance use services.

Core Competencies Framework for Practice Transformation

The goal of the ICTA program is to improve care and Medicaid beneficiary outcomes within three practice transformation core competencies: Delivering person-centered care across the care continuum Using population health analytics to address complex medical, behavioral health, and social needs; and Engaging leadership to support value-based care. This document provides more detail, including sub-elements for each core competency.
Harm Reduction 101: Harm Reduction Basics and Lessons From the Field

Harm Reduction 101: Harm Reduction Basics and Lessons From the Field

People with substance use disorders are at particular risk for overdoses and developing one or more primary conditions or chronic diseases. During this webinar, presenters will discuss harm reduction as a public health approach that aims to reduce harms related to substance use. Presenters will discuss strategies, policies, programs, and practices that aim to minimize negative health, social and legal impacts associated with drug use, drug policies, and drug laws.