Executive Order Saving Lives Through Increased Support for Mental and Behavioral Health Needs Report

Executive Summary:

On October 5, 2020, President Trump signed Executive Order (EO) 13594, Saving Lives Through Increased Support for Mental and Behavioral Health Needs. It reflects the Administration’s dedication to preventing the tragedy of suicide,

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Behavioral Health Workforce Report

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SAMHSA has released the “Behavioral Health Workforce Report,” which documents effective mental and substance use disorder treatment models and pertinent staffing needs – as part of the agency’s goal to increase access to evidence-based mental

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Strategies for Engaging Vulnerable Populations in Healthcare

"Connecting and communicating with members is an important part of effective healthcare. When providers and members work as a team, health outcomes improve.¹ Members who have access to factual and high-quality health information,² guidance from a qua

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UNDERSTANDING HEALTH REFORM AS JUSTICE REFORM: MEDICAID, CARE COORDINATION, AND COMMUNITY SUPERVISION

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Justice reform strategies to reduce mass incarceration will not be successful without healthcare and social supports for persons with chronic health conditions. This intersection of health and justice holds the potential for smarter spendin

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Artificial Intelligence in Health Care: Benefits and Challenges of Technologies to Augment Patient Care

Executive Summary

This report is being jointly published by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and the National Academy of Medicine (NAM). Part One of this joint publication is the full presentation of GAO’s Technology Assessment: Artificial

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Crisis Services: Meeting Needs, Saving Lives

The book is composed of SAMHSA’s “National Guidelines for Behavioral Health Crisis Care: Best Practice Toolkit” and related papers on crisis services. The toolkit reflects relevant clinical and health services research, review of top national program

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Improving Health Equity Through Medical-Legal Partnerships

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As hospitals and health systems continue to address the social determinants of health to improve health equity and community health outcomes, a key strategy has been to work in partnership with other organizations outside of health care.

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Why experts say healthcare needs to extend the interoperability conversation to public health

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• Bringing these groups into the fold is beneficial both to providers' work but also to their own efforts, he said. For example, a food pantry would benefit from having data on people's allergies, and a homeless shelter should have access

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Advancing Equity in Maternal Mental Health: Strategies for State Medicaid Programs

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The United States is facing tumultuous times amid the coronavirus pandemic, its related economic impact, and racial justice protests. The country is finally reckoning with internal and external anger toward systems that promote and allo

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Docs Keep Focus on Social Determinants of Health, Eye Reimbursement

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• Nearly three-quarters of doctors agree that social determinants of health will put the biggest strain on the healthcare industry come 2021, according to the third part of The Physicians Foundation 2020 Survey of America’s Physicians. Ano

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Accelerating Equity in Health Plans

Participants explore the journey that individuals and organizations must be on to identify behaviors and biases, and the constant learning and recalibrating necessary to make individuals and organizations better and more responsive to what is occurri

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Educating Health Professionals to Address the Social Determinants of Mental Health

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The social determinants of mental health involve the economic, social, and political conditions into which one is born that influence a person's mental health - and, in particular, that affect the likelihood a person raised in deficient

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New NCQA White Paper / Resource Guide for Health Plans, CINs, & Clinicians to Design & Implement SDOH

NEW NCQA WHITE PAPER / RESOURCE GUIDE

https://www.ncqa.org/white-papers/sdoh-resource-guide/

The NCQA Social Determinants of Health Resource Guide is a reference for health plans, clinically integrated networks, and clinicians to design and implement s

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Listening to Californians with Low Incomes: Health Care Access, Experiences, and Concerns Since the COVID-19 Pandemic

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The COVID-19 pandemic has inflicted significant stresses on the physical, emotional, and financial well-being of California’s residents, especially the seven million Californians — approximately 18% of the state’s residents — living in pover

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Build Health Challenge

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2019 NSDUH Annual National Report

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This report summarizes key findings from the 2019 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) for national indicators of substance use and mental health among people aged 12 years old or older in the civilian, noninstitutionalized pop

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Health Care Spending And Use Among People Experiencing Unstable Housing In The Era Of Accountable Care Organizations

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Provider organizations are increasingly held accountable for health care spending in vulnerable populations. Longitudinal data on health care spending and use among people experiencing episodes of homelessness could inform the design of alt

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Data sharing and the law: Overcoming health care sector barriers to sharing data on social determinants

In the report titled, "Data sharing and the law: Overcoming health care sector barriers to sharing data on social determinants," authors take a look at how healthcare organizations can exchange personal information outside of the healthcare sector an

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