Health Information Technology & Telehealth

This paper focuses on the potential that technological innovations have in making behavioral health crisis services more accessible and equitable across the United States and includes case studies from states and providers who were early adopters of leveraging technology to facilitate crisis care.

The article reviews the role that telehealth can play in providing medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) treatment.

The guide discusses existing behavioral healthcare services in the United States and highlights barriers to care, stigma, and discrimination that exist. It also notes the overdose epidemic and services in place to combat it.

The document reviews CMS's behavioral health priorities. Highlights include expanding telehealth access, promoting school-based services, contingency management programs, the making care primary (MCP) care model for rural communities

This Issue Brief presents best practices and considerations for agencies hoping to develop or expand street medicine and outreach care, through in-person on-site services as well as telehealth delivery, will also be presented.

This web page presents best practices in treating individuals in the LGBTQ+ community via telehealth, including substance use disorder treatment.

SAMHSA's practitioner training offers tools, training, and technical assistance to practitioners in the fields of mental health and substance use disorders.

This Topic Brief provides an overview of what constitutes low-threshold treatment for patients with OUD, the state of the evidence and patient perspectives on low-threshold OUD treatment, and key steps and strategies for providing low-threshold treatment for patients with OUD in primary care settings.

This Topic Brief provides an overview of the state of the evidence for behavioral health apps and key considerations and concerns related to finding, evaluating, and selecting smartphone and Internet-based behavioral health apps to recommend or prescribe in primary care and integrated care settings.

This Topic Brief covers foundational information on disparities in health and healthcare (including in substance use disorder), the role of behavioral health integration in reducing disparities, and ensuring advancement of health equity within integrated care settings.