Key Considerations for Optimizing EMRs to Support Tobacco Use Treatment in Behavioral Health

Join the National Center of Excellence for Tobacco-Free Recovery for an informative webinar focused on enhancing behavioral health electronic medical records (EMRs) to better support tobacco use screening and treatment efforts.

This session will explore key functional elements and practical strategies for improving EMR workflows, optimizing system features, and supporting providers in delivering consistent tobacco use screening, intervention, and follow-up care. The session will also suggest workarounds to surmount common EMR functional barriers and support core tobacco use screening and treatment best practices.

Participants will also hear real-world insights from an EMR expert, a psychiatrist, and a behavioral health program specialist on how EMRs are currently used in practice and where opportunities may exist to leverage EMRs to strengthen tobacco use treatment across behavioral health settings.

This webinar will:

• Explain how behavioral health EMRs can drive workflows to support consistent and evidence-based tobacco use screening, treatment, and follow-up.
• Identify opportunities to better align EMRs with evidence-based practice and optimize EMR features and workflows based on real-world experiences shared by a psychiatric provider and behavioral health program specialist.
• List strategies for providers to overcome EMR system limitations and enhance tobacco use screening, treatment, and follow-up within existing capabilities.