Integrating behavioral health care with primary care improves pediatric outcomes, reducing PSC-17 scores, especially with behavioral health clinician encounters and psychotropic prescriptions.

Aiming to increase care access, the national Primary Care–Mental Health Integration (PC-MHI) initiative of the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) embedded specialists, care managers, or both in ...

The behavioral health crisis in this country is well-documented and only getting worse. As a result, there is growing impatience for a paradigm shift that moves behavioral health from the periphery to ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Integrating behavioral health clinicians into primary care improves access to mental health care. Cody A.

The health care reform debate has dominated media and water cooler conversations for the past several months. As a congressional fellow working on health policy in the United States Senate, my days ...

Innovative collaboration gives providers and patients in Southeastern Arizona immediate access to high-quality behavioral health support through primary care BENSON, Ariz. & SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE) ...

It's been more than 20 years since a landmark Institute of Medicine study reported siloing behavioral and primary health leads to inferior care, yet walls between the two still remain. A Milliman ...

This morning Doctor On Demand announced the launch of a multicomponent virtual primary care platform designed to integrate with US health plans’ and employers’ existing networks. Called "Synapse by ...

Experiences from a large, integrated, value-based health system suggest that telehealth can be an effective care delivery approach. Public policies can improve telehealth access and care. The COVID-19 ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront featured topic Accountable Care for Population Health, featuring analysis and discussion of how to understand, design, support, and measure ...

Zimbabwe is intensifying efforts to improve the prevention, early detection and treatment of breast and cervical cancers by integrating cancer and chronic disease services into primary health care.