HITEQ Highlights: Deploying Smartphone Apps to Advance Mental Health in Primary Care
HITEQ Highlights Webinar
Year Developed: 2022
Resource Type: Archived Webinar.Primary Audience: Administrative Staff
Clinicians
PCAs
Secondary Audience: Board of Directors
C-Suite (CEOs, CFOs, CIO, COOs, CMOs, etc.)
Enabling Staff
Outreach Staff
Language(s): English
Developed by: HITEQ (See other resources developed by this organization).
Resource Summary: Patient engagement through electronic health apps are one solution to the need for timely and ongoing patient support. This session discussed a program to support mental health through an integrated behavioral health model using a mental health app at Cambridge Health Alliance.
Resource Details: Patient engagement through electronic health apps are one solution to the need for timely and ongoing patient support. This session discussed a program to support mental health through an integrated behavioral health model using a mental health app at Cambridge Health Alliance. The session also discussed how apps can address gaps in mental health care, the lessons learned in effective implementation of use of a mental health app in a safety-net clinic, and provide a rubric for evaluating health apps for your patients and use in your mental health service.
Resource Topic: Health Information Technology (HIT)/Data, Promising Practice, Telehealth, Health Equity
Resource Subtopic: Population Health, Access and Equity, Data and Reporting, Operational Feasibility, Population Health.
Keywords: Access to Care, Adolescents and Youth, Community Engagement, Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS), Patient Education, Evaluation, Health Information Exchange (HIE), Implementation Tools, Integrated Care, Meaningful Use, Mental Health, Outreach, Patient Satisfaction, Performance Improvement, Planning, Prevention, Privacy/Protected Health Information (e.g., Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)), Rural Health Services, Safety Net Providers.This project is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of an award totaling $6,625,000 with 0 percentage financed with non-governmental sources. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by HRSA, HHS, or the U.S. Government. For more information, please visit HRSA.gov.