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July 01, 2025 - Español
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Usefulness of Behavioral Health Apps … Health Playbook as a guide to help primary care providers and practices integrate behavioral health … Integrated behavioral health aims to help improve access to behavioral health care and improve health … Ultimately, the goal of integrated behavioral health care is better care and better health.
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/quality-resources/tools/chtoolbx/measures/measure-9.html
November 01, 2017 - Quality Measures
Overview
The lack of reliable and useful quality measures for mental and behavioral … Includes behavioral screens for 14-18-year-olds including preventive screening and counseling on risky … Its contents were largely derived from two pre-existing instruments for behavioral health care quality … The Consumer Assessment of Behavioral Health Services surveys. … The survey needed to be:
Meaningful to individuals who have used behavioral health services and
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/hit-plan-region-v-behavioral-health-care-providers
January 01, 2023 - HIT Plan for Region V Behavioral Health Care Providers
Project Description … Clinical Messaging
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Health Care … The purpose of this project was to develop and implement a Health Information Technology Plan for behavioral
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www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/building-community/index.html
December 01, 2023 - to answer community-based research questions to tools and guidance to clinicians on how to integrate behavioral … The Academy for Integrating Behavioral Health and Primary Care
The Academy for Integrating Behavioral … Behavioral Health integration is the care that results from a practice team of primary care and behavioral
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July 01, 2024 - Español
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This is an example of a behavioral health treatment plan from MaineHealth’s Behavioral
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April 26, 2024 - Español
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Usefulness of Behavioral Health Apps … The Academy website includes a variety of resources and information on integrating behavioral health … and primary care, also referred to as integrated behavioral health (more extensively defined in the
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integrationacademy.ahrq.gov/news-and-events/calendar/event/23430
July 08, 2025 - Español
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Primary Pathways: Paving the Way for Pediatric Behavioral … multi-payer alignment pilot to expand and support pediatric practices in caring for their patients' behavioral
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www.ahrq.gov/cahps/surveys-guidance/mental-health/index.html
March 01, 2025 - Surveys
Many organizations are interested in assessing and improving patient experience with behavioral … was the result of a collaborative effort to evaluate and merge the original Consumer Assessment of Behavioral … The ECHO Survey has separate versions for Managed Care Organizations (MCOs) and Managed Behavioral Health … To evaluate and monitor the quality of behavioral healthcare organizations. … Download the Managed Behavioral Health Care Organization (MBHO) Survey and Instructions (ZIP, 4 MB)
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integrationacademy.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-04/AHRQ_Integration_Academy_Overview-508.pdf
January 01, 2025 - The Academy for Integrating Behavioral Health and Primary Care
The Academy for Integrating Behavioral … Why is integrated behavioral health important? … Integrated medical-behavioral care compared with usual primary care for child and adolescent behavioral … Outcomes of integrated
behavioral health with primary care. … Health and Primary Care
What is integrated behavioral health?
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integrationacademy.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/AHRQ-Integration-Academy-Overview.pdf
January 01, 2025 - The Academy for Integrating Behavioral Health and Primary Care
The Academy for Integrating Behavioral … Why is integrated behavioral health important? … Integrated medical-behavioral care compared with usual primary care for child and adolescent behavioral … Outcomes of integrated
behavioral health with primary care. … Health and Primary Care
What is integrated behavioral health?
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integrationacademy.ahrq.gov/expert-insight/success-stories
February 01, 2024 - Behavioral Health Consultants in the Primary Care Team
At Cherokee, behavioral health consultants ( … For example there could be a behavioral health release in which only the behavioral health information … Behavioral health integration at CHPW occurs through the support of onsite behavioral healthcare managers … The Behavioral Health Integration program, a program of MaineHealth and Maine Behavioral Healthcare ( … ensure the patient will follow up on their behavioral health needs.
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integrationacademy.ahrq.gov/about/integrated-behavioral-health/policy-and-financing
September 01, 2024 - Español
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Usefulness of Behavioral Health Apps … There is growing recognition that integrating behavioral health in primary care leads to better care … Outcomes of integrated behavioral health with primary care. J Am Board Fam Med 2017;30(2):130-9.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/optimizing-health-it-safe-integration-behavioral-health-and-primary-care
March 10, 2021 - Book/Report
Optimizing Health IT for Safe Integration of Behavioral Health and Primary … Citation Text:
Optimizing Health IT for Safe Integration of Behavioral Health and Primary Care. … This report examines how gaps in information sharing can affect behavioral health care. … potential for diagnostic improvement through information system connections between primary care and behavioral … March 27, 2019
Missing clinical and behavioral health data in a large electronic health
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www.ahrq.gov/prevention/guidelines/tobacco/clinicians/presentations/2008update-full/slide46.html
October 01, 2014 - Types of Counseling and Behavioral Therapies:
2000 Guideline: Recommendation: Three types of counseling … and behavioral Therapies result in higher abstinence rates: (1) providing smokers with practical counseling … These types of counseling and behavioral therapies should be included in smoking cessation interventions … (Strength of Evidence = B).
2008 Guideline Update: Recommendation: Two types of counseling and behavioral
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integrationacademy.ahrq.gov/playbooks/behavioral-health-and-primary-care/implementing-plan/educate-patients-and-families-about-integrated-ambulatory-care
March 01, 2024 - Español
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Usefulness of Behavioral Health Apps … Patients expect that integrated behavioral health care is a standard of quality care. … staff can help overcome any stigma still associated with behavioral health diagnoses. … Use the following approaches to encourage patients to expect behavioral health to be integrated into
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February 01, 2025 - Español
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Age 0-5 Behavioral-Developmental … Health
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Usefulness of Behavioral Health Apps … NIAC members have included clinicians and experts in the areas of: Primary care, Behavioral health, Health
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integrationacademy.ahrq.gov/products/topic-briefs/covid-19
February 01, 2025 - Barriers to behavioral health treatment the COVID-19 pandemic has created. … collections addressing COVID-19 and behavioral health. … Washington, DC: National Council for Behavioral Health; September 2020. … The State of the Behavioral Health Workforce: A Literature Review. … Impact of COVID-19 on Demand for and Access to Behavioral Healthcare.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/innovation/behavioral-health-vital-signs-initiative-increases-patient-education-and-disclosure
February 26, 2025 - “Behavioral Health Vital Signs” Initiative Increases Patient Education and Disclosure about Interpersonal … Resources Used and Skills Needed
Incorporation of behavioral health staff and clinicians within the … Staff members should be educated to ensure that they understand how these behavioral health issues are … The “Behavioral Health Vital Signs” initiative. … The “Behavioral Health Vital Signs” initiative. NEJM Catalyst . 2019.
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