Health IT Safety Leaders Address Changes Needed to Improve Integration of Behavioral Health and Primary Care
Integration between these two healthcare specialties offers important opportunities to improve patient care, says ECRI, the nation's most trusted voice in healthcare.
- Integration between these two healthcare specialties offers important opportunities to improve patient care, says ECRI, the nation's most trusted voice in healthcare.
- ECRI's Partnership for Health IT Patient Safety, a multi-stakeholder collaborative that sets priorities in health IT safety, worked together with the Electronic Health Record Association (EHRA) to understand the technology challenges with behavioral health and primary care integration.
- Their just-released white paper, Optimizing Health IT for Safe Integration of Behavioral Health and Primary Care , provides specific recommendations to develop and implement health IT to support and enhance such integration.
- Effective treatment for these conditions benefits from the integration of behavioral health and primary care.