Care Integration

Last week, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) introduced the Roadmap for Behavioral Health Integration, to advance the White House Strategy to Address our National Mental Health Crisis announced earlier this year.

Summary of innovation abstracts that were presented at the National Academy of Medicine’s recent Stigma of Addiction Summit.

The goal of this module is to train providers to initiate patients on buprenorphine safely and effectively.

This review examines the effectiveness of buprenorphine vs. placebo for retention in treatment and illicit opioid use, as measured by positive urinalysis or self-reported use.

This editorial provides insight into the common misperceptions among providers in prescribing buprenorphine for Opioid Use Disorder (OUD).

JBS can facilitate additional technical assistance and support related prescribing medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD). This support is recommended for clinicians who are contemplating or have recently begun prescribing MOUD and would like additional support.

This toolkit contains clinical materials targeting treatment of substance use disorder in the acute care setting.

This toolkit was produced by the University of Minnesota Rural Health Research Center, in partnership with the NORC Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis, and in collaboration with the Rural Health Information Hub (RHIhub).

The MAT for OUD Playbook aims to address the growing need for guidance as more primary care practices and health systems begin to implement MAT. The Playbook’s framework is designed to be useful for practices implementing any array of MAT services.

Behavioral health integration, or BHI, requires that the health and mental health systems are organized through integrated care models that address the full spectrum of health needs.