Medical Providers

This best practices guide provides resources and tips focused using telehealth for emergency departments.

This Telehealth Capacity Assessment Tool (TCAT) helps behavioral health organizations: 1) measure their capacity in accordance with these factors; 2) identify capacity building needs and plan for development in strategic areas; and 3) monitor and evaluate the impact of their capacity building efforts.

This web resource shares the basics of telehealth policy across the nation, including actions and exceptions introduced in the 2020 CARES Act to help expand the use of telehealth during the pandemic.

This toolkit compiles evidence-based and promising models and resources to support organizations in identifying and implementing telehealth programs to address common challenges experienced in rural communities across the United States. The modules in this toolkit contain resources and information focused on developing, implementing, evaluating, and sustaining telehealth programs for rural community health programs.

This webpage shares insights and resources for using telehealth in family medicine and primary care.

Outlines steps and best practices when implementing telehealth strategies to promote adoption of new technology by healthcare organizations

This brief provides an overview of telehealth for medication-assisted treatment.

These policies are effective beginning March 31, 2020, and will remain in effect for the duration of the public health emergency, unless DEA specifies an earlier date. This decision tree summarizes policies adopted in response to the COVID-19 public health emergency by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to allow DEA-registered practitioners to prescribe controlled substances without having to interact in-person with their patients the policies. This decision tree is for quick reference and does not provide a complete description of all requirements.

The purpose of this document is to provide guidance to addiction treatment clinicians and programs on the regulatory and general practice issues related to the use of telehealth during the COVID-19 national emergency, which is also a public health emergency.

Treatment providers and peer support specialists looking for online and telephone support groups for their patients/peers should review the list below. Both 12 Step and non-12 Step-based online support groups are identified.