Organizational Leadership

Evaluates patient satisfaction, acceptability, and components of implementation of in-person SBIRT compared with electronic-SBIRT in health care settings

Provides resources for assessing organizational readiness, building the business case, and workforce development for integrating primary care and behavioral health

Summarizes discussions from a 2020 workshop exploring challenges and opportunities for providing care for people with mental health and substance use disorders in primary care settings

Discusses some of the challenges with billing and coding for SBIRT and lessons learned from Oregon adding SBIRT as a performance metric

Part of a webinar series featuring sustainable strategies for primary care practices working to integrate behavioral health during the COVID-19 pandemic

Presents challenges and opportunities for improving behavioral health (including alcohol use disorder) in rural communities, with examples of ways to better integrate behavioral health and primary care and examples of policies for addressing behavioral health disorders

Provides information about the development and potential uses of the USAUDIT alcohol screening clinical decision support that can be integrated into electronic health record systems and other health information technology to help providers identify adults who should be screened for alcohol use

Encourages medical assistants to take an active role and serve as champions for screening, brief intervention for alcohol use in primary care settings

For promoting behavioral health integration in health centers, discusses barriers and opportunities that build upon policy recommendations and suggestions to States for implementation strategies

Development of a taxonomy of key domains that might comprehensively characterize any external support intervention that could be used by both external groups or researchers and healthcare leaders