HITEQ Health Center Behavioral Health Integrator Badge

Health centers are increasing the integration of behavioral health in primary care, spurred by an increased focus on whole person care and additional funding. Effective use of health IT in conjunction with patient privacy and confidentiality is imperative to support behavioral health.

According to the Office of the National Coordinator, "Health information technology can help to improve behavioral health care and can further enable care coordination and integration, increase information sharing, and support prevention, treatment, and recovery activities. Access to and the exchange and use of behavioral health information as part of routine care can help to improve continuity in care services and support efforts toward achieving an interoperable health care system across the continuum."

Take some time to read through some of the articles on this page and then fill out the submission form on the right and you will be rewarded with a Health Center Incredible Behavioral Health Integrator badge! This is an official badge that is submitted by the HITEQ Center as a proof of completion to the blockchain. Your credentials can be added to profiles such as LinkedIn and verified through accreditation services such as Accredible and Open Badge.

https://hiteqcenter.org/Services/Badges-Self-paced-Learning/Behavioral-Health-Integrator

Promising Practices in Virtual Integrated Behavioral Health Care

Lessons from Community Health Centers during COVID-19; February 2021

HITEQ Center / Friday, February 26, 2021 0 10839

With the rapid shift to telehealth services propelled by the COVID-19 pandemic, many community health centers had to rapidly transition to a mechanism of care delivery previously unknown and unfamiliar. Within a matter of days and weeks, health centers creatively found ways to transform workflows and approaches to care delivery to continue to provide care even if the patient was physically distant. This resource highlights promising practices in virtual integrated behavioral health care identified from community health centers.

HITEQ Highlights: Deploying Smartphone Apps to Advance Mental Health in Primary Care

HITEQ Highlights Webinar

Jodie Albert / 11/3/2022 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM 0 5010

Patient engagement through electronic health apps are one solution to the need for timely and ongoing patient support. Join us to discuss a program to support mental health through an integrated behavioral health model using a mental health app at Cambridge Health Alliance. The session discussed how apps can address gaps in mental health care, the lessons learned in effective implementation of use of a mental health app in a safety-net clinic, and provide a rubric for evaluating health apps for your patients and use in your mental health service.

HITEQ Highlights: HIV Prevention and Treatment for patients with SUD in an Integrated Behavioral Health Setting

Alyssa Carlisle / 4/23/2020 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM 0 14807

Join the HITEQ Center, in collaboration with the National Council for Behavioral Health, for a webinar on understanding from a beginner perspective, how to integrate HIV prevention, screening into integrated behavioral health services, including how to identify patients at risk for HIV with a focus on SUD, facilitate screening, and prompting for rescreening at appropriate intervals.

HITEQ Highlights: Documentation Tips when using the Collaborative Care Model for the Treatment of Depression and Anxiety in Primary Care

Alyssa Carlisle / 1/30/2020 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM 0 19303

Join the HITEQ Center, in collaboration with the National Council for Behavioral Health, for a webinar on Documentation Tips when using the Collaborative Care Model for the Treatment of Depression and Anxiety in Primary Care. The webinar provided a brief overview and benefits of the collaborative care model as well as information specific to each of the main staff roles. The role-specific nuances of documentation were highlighted, including considerations for tracking data such as clinical activities accomplished with each patient during the month.

HITEQ Highlights: Enhancing the EHR for Suicide Prevention

Alyssa Carlisle / 11/21/2019 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM 0 16044

This webinar is the second in a series highlighting the intersection between health information technology and behavioral health services. The webinar explored key components to be built into an electronic health record in order to better address suicide prevention in health care. Decision support considerations, documentation and communication enhancements, as well as population health management strategies were discussed.

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AirTable interactive PCMH Tracking and Support Tool

HITEQ Center / Friday, October 8, 2021

/ Categories: Health IT Enabled QI, Foundation for HIT Enabled QI, Health IT & QI Workforce, Professional Development

AirTable interactive PCMH Tracking and Support Tool

NCQA's Patient Centered Medical Home Recognition, Updated with Version 7 Standards in 2021!

HITEQ's AirTable interactive PCMH Tracking and Support Tool is intended to help health centers gauge track and support their transformation process for achieving PCMH recognition. Of course, completing this does not guarantee passing PCMH recognition process, it is intended to help you assess, plan, and monitor!

Health centers should reference requirements from NCQA to ensure a complete understanding of the requirements prior to using the HITEQ tool. Some helpful links are included below:

Download PCMH Standards and Guidelines from NCQA, be sure to download the year in which you will be seeking recognition!
- When downloading the standards and guidelines, you will also get a folder of resources-- there is an Excel-based self-assessment in there that health centers may find helpful.
Read more about HRSA PCMH Support
Access the PCMH Toolkit for Health Centers from NCQA
Review the PCMH Recognition Process
- Be sure to submit your Notice of Intent to HRSA a couple weeks before you plan to enroll in Q-PASS.
- Many EHR or population health vendors support PCMH recognition by having their functionality 'prevalidation' by NQCA, thereby giving their users 'transfer credit' to achieve a number of PCMH criteria. If your health IT vendor(s) are prevalidated then you will receive some transfer credits, meaning you will not need to provide additional evidence beyond proof that you use the vendor and its specific components. If your EHR vendor is prevalidated then reach out to the contact listed for their letter of prevalidation and information about transfer credits.

Review process: The review of the evidence for PCMH recognition is done through an interactive, multi-meeting process rather than a single submission. There are three virtual reviews (often called virtual check-ins) over up to 12 months. Each virtual check-in will center around your NCQA reviewer reviewing criteria evidence you have submitted through Q-PASS. Any remaining virtual check-ins allow practices the opportunity to revise or resubmit previous criteria. Learn more about virtual check-ins here.

Timeframe: Plan for 3 to 12 months to implement transformation processes. Most policies and procedures must be in place for 3 months in order to be meet the requirements for recognition. Recognition needs to be completed within 12 months of enrollment. PCMH now requires annual reporting.

HITEQ AirTable interactive PCMH Tracking and Support Tool - Updated to align with Version 7 of Standards and Guidelines!

HITEQ's interactive AirTable PCMH Tracking and Support tool can be accessed for free here.

To use this tool for yourself, make a copy of the Master PCMH Support tool, and duplicate the base and save it to your own free AirTable account (click here to set one up and check out this video for an overview). More information on duplicating the AirTable to save for yourself can be found here.

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Tags: quality improvement patient centered medical home PCMH Practice Transformation Self-Assessment 2017 PCMH Standards NCQA

Intended Audience

Health Center Leadership, Care teams, Quality Improvement Staff

Resource Links

Interactive HITEQ AirTable PCMH Support toolUpdated with Version 7 Standards and Guidelines published in July 2021, covering Jan. 1, 2022-Dec. 31, 2022. Read the last paragraph in the description above for how to access and use this for your own purposes.

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