A National Web Conference on Enhancing Behavioral Health Care Using Health IT
Overall Purpose:
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has identified a gap in health care and public health practitioners' knowledge of health IT using multiple mechanisms, including the findings of the continuing education (CE) planning group. This series of Webinars is designed to increase practitioners' ability to improve health care decisionmaking, support patient-centered care, and improve the quality and safety of care through the use of health IT. The purpose of this specific Webinar is to present a series of projects in which health IT applications are used to support the unique treatment and communications needs for patients with behavioral health issues. The approaches include combining data visualization, human factors, and data analysis for behavioral health decision support; examining the effect of a personal health record (PHR) for mental health applications; and adjusting basic health information exchange (HIE) protocols to fit the needs of the behavioral health community.
Learning Objectives:
- Discuss the use of visual decision support tools at the point of care to improve selection of effective treatment choices by providers for patients with major depressive disorder.
- Describe the potential benefits of use of a PHR for patients with serious mental illness.
- Describe how a PHR can support improvements in consumer activation and provider access to information for patients with serious mental illness.
- Explain the issues and challenges involved in building an HIE that includes behavioral health data.
Event Materials:
- Presentation Slides (PDF, 9.61 MB)
- Recording of the Presentation (WMV, 148 MB)
- Electronic Behavioral Health Information Network (eBHIN) Consent to Disclose form (PDF, 215 KB)
CME/CNE credits were approved for those who attended the live event of this Web conference only. The online evaluation system will be open to submit evaluations for those who attended until 03/31/13. If you have any questions about obtaining CME/CNE credit for this webinar, please send an email to DigitalHealthcareResearch@ahrq.hhs.gov.