Health Information Technology & Telehealth

This directory includes a comprehensive list of state and federal COVID-19 resources.

The Population Health Management Resource Guide for Behavioral Health helps providers and payers better integrate the delivery or management of behavioral health care and physical care. Implementing best practices from this guide improves access and outcomes for populations with behavioral health conditions.

This serves as an addendum to the Action Alliance's 2018 Recommended Standard Care for People with Suicide Risk: Making Health Care Suicide Safe, which report suggested suicide screening, with indicated care as needed, for all individuals receiving care for behavioral health conditions as a core responsibility for health care organizations.

This brief provides summary findings from a 2019, pre-pandemic review of the evidence of telebehavioral health's effectiveness on key clinical outcomes. It also describes the programmatic structure and relevant telebehavioral health policies of three programs: Texas Medicaid, Massachusetts Medicaid, and the Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center Rural Telemental Health Program.

This guide discusses how to incorporate telehealth into a practice. Get resources and tips focused on different specialties and delivery models including telebehavioral health.

This policy brief explores strategies for ensuring people in jails and prisons have uninterrupted access to medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) during the pandemic. These include taking advantage of a new federal waiver that allows providers to initiate MOUD via telemedicine, without a prior physical examination; providing adequate medication supplies upon release; and offering virtual counseling and peer support.

This program — Support for Hospital Opioid Use Treatment (Project SHOUT) — provides clinical leaders with the tools they need to start and maintain patients on buprenorphine or methadone during hospitalizations for any condition, be it medical, surgical, or obstetric.

This roadmap and toolkit provides planning steps, strategies, and resources for the implementation of primary care and behavioral health services via telehealth.

This white paper reviews cybersecurity risks, regulatory issues, policies and procedures, audit tools, and best practices in the use and management of telehealth and telemedicine, and offers recommendation for addressing them.

This consortium provides consultation, resources, and news for building sustainable telehealth programs for rural and underserved communities.