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This section includes tools and resources that ÂÜÀòÊÓÆµdeveloped, in collaboration with experts in primary care, to advance primary care research and improve the quality and safety of primary care. These tools and resources help researchers and evaluators to design and evaluate primary care research, decision makers to implement practices for primary care transformation, and clinicians to enhance the delivery of primary care by improving care teams, care processes, and achieving best practices.
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1 to 11 of 11 Tools and Resources DisplayedThis report documents how workflow changed in six primary and specialty care medical offices after they implemented health IT systems.
Research Initiative: Health IT and Digital Health
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This report highlights opportunities to improve the impact of health IT on care coordination activities in primary care.
Research Initiative: Health IT and Digital Health
Type: Report
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This report documents workflow impacts of applications that allow patients to share information with primary care providers electronically.
Research Initiative: Health IT and Digital Health
Type: Report
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This Guidebook identifies the key professional practices for behavioral health and primary care integration. The goal is to help other primary care sites integrate behavioral healthcare more effectively. Findings are organized into two categories: Organization-Level Professional Practices, and Interpersonal and Individual Professional Practices.
Research Initiative: Behavioral Health and Substance Use Disorders
Type: Handbook/Guidebook
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This Literature Review highlights a comprehensive set of competencies, practices, providers, and staff needed to integrate behavioral health into primary care and provide comprehensive care to improve patient outcomes.
Research Initiative: Behavioral Health and Substance Use Disorders
Type: Literature Review
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This Quick-Start Guide describes the dissemination, planning, and implementation process for practice-based research networks.
Research Initiative: Health IT and Digital Health
Type: Handbook/Guidebook
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This lexicon for behavioral health and primary integration is a set of concepts and definitions developed by expert consensus for what we mean by behavioral health and primary care integration—a functional definition—what things look like in practice.
Research Initiative: Behavioral Health and Substance Use Disorders
Type: Lexicon
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Integration Playbook is a Web-based, complete, and concise set of instructions on implementing integration of behavioral health and primary care.
Research Initiative: Behavioral Health and Substance Use Disorders
Type: Playbook
Publication Date: Ongoing
This research examines the integration of health information technology (IT) into primary care. It includes a variety of electronic methods that are used to manage information about people's health and health care, for both individual patients and groups of patients. The use of health IT can improve the quality of care, even as it makes health care more cost effective.
Research Initiative: Health IT and Digital Health
Type: Program
Publication Date: Ongoing
This toolkit helps examine the impact of health information technology (health IT) on both clinical and administrative workflow. Once implemented, health IT can provide information to help reorganize and improve workflow. This toolkit is designed for people and organizations interested or involved in the planning, design, implementation, and use of health IT in ambulatory care.
Research Initiative: Health IT and Digital Health
Type: Toolkit
Publication Date: Ongoing
The ÂÜÀòÊÓÆµDigital Healthcare Research Program has funded the development of tools to assist in planning for, implementing, and evaluating digital healthcare resources.
Research Initiative: Health IT and Digital Health
Type: Program
Publication Date: Ongoing