March 2, 2012 9-10am (Pacific)
Webinar: Mental Health Integration Program (MHIP)
Speakers: Betsy Jones and Jürgen Unützer
Lessons learned from the MHIP Program which includes over 100 community health clinics and over 35 mental health clinics providing integrated care to a variety of low-income populations. MORE
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Webinar will be archived.
October 29, 2011 8am – Noon (Pacific)
“Integrating Behavioral Health and Primary Care: Practical Skills for the Consultant Psychiatrist”
Workshop hosted by the American Psychiatric Association at the Institute on Psychiatric Services
Speakers: Drs. Jürgen Unützer, Lori Raney, John Kern and Anna Ratzliff
Description: The American Psychiatric Association will feature a course in Integrated Care for psychiatric consultants and other medical staff members at the Institute of Psychiatric Services meeting being held in San Francisco Oct 27 - 30, 2011. This half-day workshop will be offered from 8am – Noon at the San Francisco Marriott Marquis. The workshop will present a curriculum designed to assist medical staff members who wish to work in collaborative settings with primary care and prepare attendees for functioning along the collaboration continuum, which includes addressing mental health issues in primary care and co-morbid medical problems in mental health settings. For more information contact Lori Raney, MD or visit the IPS website.
October 26, 2011
9am – 10am (Pacific)
“Integrated Behavioral Healthcare in the Era of the Medical Home”
Webinar hosted by the AIMS Center
Speaker: Jurgen Unutzer, MD, MPH, MA
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October 21, 2011
APA supports Medicare proposal
The APA wrote a letter to Don Berwick of CMS endorsing an AIMS Center proposal to include collaborative care for common mental disorders in demonstration projects through the Medicare and Medicaid Innovation Center.
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October 13, 2011 9am (Pacific)
“Inseparable: Mental Health and Primary Care”
Webinar hosted by the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative
Speaker: Benjamin Miller, PsyD
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Archived PCPCC Presentations
September 29, 2011
AIMS Center publishes first Integration Roadmap Newsletter
Starting with this issue we will publish a monthly newsletter to report on Integration Roadmap activities resulting from the Integrated Mental Health Summit meeting hosted by the AIMS Center in May 2011.
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September 19, 2011
“Mental Health Not Getting Enough Attention from UN”
Description:
Radio podcast on Public Radio International program The World
Reporter Joanne Silberner traveled to Uganda on a Rosalynn Carter Fellowship for Mental Health Journalism to create this report about lack of attention to mental health by the United Nations.
September 6, 2011
NIMH Director Tom Insel, MD devotes his monthly blog to collaborative care for people with severe and persistent mental illness (MI) in a posting entitled "No Health Without Mental Health."
September 2011
Implementation Lessons from Community Health
Psychiatric Services published an article about real-world implementation of integrated care in community health clinics in Texas. Key Message: Early and intensive follow-up after treatment initiation is particularly important.
August 29, 2011
New Online IMPACT Training
This 13-module training has the latest integrated care information available. MORE
July 2011
Consultation Psychiatry in the Medical Home
General Hospital Psychiatry publishes an article about "leveraging" the expertise of the consulting psychiatrist in the medical home or ACO. "These population-focused collaborative care approaches can help health care systems achieve the triple aim of improving access to evidence-based behavioral health care, improving patient and provider satisfaction, improving health outcomes and reducing health care costs." MORE
May 2-3, 2011
Thought leaders convened at a summit in Seattle to begin development of a roadmap for integrated care in the era of health care reform. MORE
April 29, 2011
The University of Washington published a press release about the Summit Meeting.
December 30, 2010
A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine by Katon and colleagues found collaborative care improves both medical and mental health outcomes.
January 5, 2010
Behavioral Health Central featured the DIAMOND program in Minnesota as a model for tackling the high cost of employee depression. The online article included a discussion of cost outcomes from the IMPACT study and details on how the DIAMOND program is being implemented across the state.
October 22, 2009
IMPACT Care is more effective than standard care in managing depression among older cancer patients
Dr. Jesse Fann and co-authors found that the IMPACT program was feasible and more effective than usual care in treating depression in older cancer patients in diverse primary care settings. The results were published in a supplement of the Journal of General Internal Medicine on cancer survivorship care in primary care.
Press Release
Medscape Medical News Story
United Press International (UPI)
University Week Online
October 13, 2009
Chris Langston, Program Director of The John A. Harford Foundation, highlighted the IMPACT project in a post on the Hartford Foundation blog.
September 13, 2009
WCCO-TV in Minneapolis, Minnesota broadcast a story on the DIAMOND initiative.
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