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October 13, 2020 by Nina Russin

Brave New World: Technology is Helping Providers to Find Affective Disorders Earlier, but Patient Privacy Concerns Abound

5 minute read Although we can’t predict what the post-pandemic world will look like, it is certain that it will bear little resemblance to the period preceding the current crisis. Mobile health and Internet technologies have been developing at breakneck pace, reflecting the recent focus on telehealth, as well as the omnipresence of cell phones. […]

Category iconIntegrated Care News Tag iconhealth technology,  patient privacy,  mental health

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Neftali Serrano
September 30, 2020 by Neftali Serrano

How widespread is integrated care?

5 Minute Read This is a first. To our knowledge no systematic effort to account for the number of practices providing integrated behavioral health services in the United States has been undertaken, other than efforts to identify colocated providers in a geographical space. To be sure the data collected has its limitations and this blog […]

Category iconIntegrated Care News Tag iconPopulation health,  Primary Care,  integrated care,  behavioral health,  workforce

September 21, 2020 by Norma Balli-Borrero

Pediatric Patient Engagement During A Pandemic

5 minute read Greetings, CFHA! My name is Norma Balli-Borrero, and this is my very first post as a newly minted member of the CFHA Blog Writing Team. My posts will center around being a BHC and research assistant working in Pediatrics. Some of my posts will be based on my own personal experience, while […]

Category iconIntegrated Care News Tag iconCOVID-19,  patient-centered care,  pediatric,  engagement

September 14, 2020 by Nina Russin

Shell Shocked: Psychological implications for those working on COVID’s front lines

3 minute read As COVID-19 progresses into its ninth month, there is growing concern about long-term psychological consequences for frontline workers, and their inability to self-monitor. Shell shock was a term first used during World War I to describe psychological trauma among soldiers who had served on the front lines. Researchers observing symptoms such as […]

Category iconIntegrated Care News Tag iconwellness,  COVID-19,  health workers

September 3, 2020 by Catherine Van Fossen, M.S., Keeley J. Pratt, Ph.D., Robert Murray, MD and Joey Skelton, MD

A Tool for Medical Providers to Evaluate Family Functioning

3 minute read Reprint. Original post available here. Family functioning is one way to measure how a family meets its physical and psychological needs; in other words, it quantifies the family’s emotional environment1,2. Family functioning has been found to be associated with chronic physical and mental illness in children3–6; however, family functioning is not consistently […]

Category iconIntegrated Care News Tag iconPrimary Care,  family health,  research update,  measurement

Matthew P. Martin
August 28, 2020 by Matthew P. Martin

Survey Says: Maybe Don’t Screen So Much?

5 minute read Several years ago, I did an audit of PHQ-9 scores in our clinic and noticed that the total scores did not always match the individual item scores. Nurse, I need a calculator, stat. At the time, my team took a universal, paper-based screening approach for depression: patient answers questions on a clipboard; […]

Category iconIntegrated Care News Tag iconscreening,  preventive care,  health technology

Neftali Serrano
August 25, 2020 by Neftali Serrano

We Can End Racism In Our House

5 Minute Read There is a necessary connection between our work in integrating behavioral health and medicine and the work of rooting out racism in health care. That connection lies at the root of what those of us who call ourselves champions of integrated care are doing: we are reforming a fragmented and too-often ineffective […]

Category iconIntegrated Care News Tag iconPrimary Care,  integrated care,  anti-racism,  health inequities,  CLAS Standards

August 11, 2020 by Nina Russin

Seniors for Seniors Animal Adoption Programs Bring Older Adults Out of Isolation

2 minute read Older adults have been among those most impacted by the current pandemic, both physically and emotionally. In addition to advancing age, many such individuals suffer from chronic diseases that increase risk for unfavorable health outcomes should they contract  COVID-19. Although self-isolation is keeping them healthy, many find quality of life to be […]

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Neftali Serrano
July 29, 2020 by Neftali Serrano

Don’t Quit: We Can Outlast All Of This

3 Minute Read I’ve been tempted to throw my laptop/ iPhone across the room in recent weeks. This coronavirus thing and the political and economic chaos it has wrought, not to mention the morbidity and mortality that accompanies it have pushed me to the brink. And many healthcare professionals have intimated to me that they […]

Category iconIntegrated Care News Tag iconPrimary Care,  resiliency,  integrated care,  behavioral health,  workforce

July 16, 2020 by Nina Russin

Charging Stations

3 minute read The current pandemic has generated ongoing conversations on the topic of self-care, particularly as it relates to frontline workers who are experiencing unprecedented levels of burnout. In a recent study at Houston Methodist Hospital, researchers determined that working longer shifts, experiencing more loss of life, PPE supply shortages and fears of infecting […]

Category iconIntegrated Care News Tag iconCOVID-19,  self-care

Barry J. Jacobs
July 7, 2020 by Barry J. Jacobs

Dear Young Person: Give This Old Guy a Break

4 minute read To us nervous old guys, this pandemic is about risk and fear.           I take early morning walks in my leafy hometown of Swarthmore, PA when the sun is still well below the treetops to avoid social contact and possibly contracting infection. But twice in recent weeks, I’ve turned a corner and run […]

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Matthew P. Martin
June 10, 2020 by Matthew P. Martin

Research Review

4 minute read As we continue to move through historic change in our healthcare and criminal justice systems, the research on integration seems to have slowed down a bit. That said, we still have some important developments helping to move the field of integrated care forward. As always, I collect and review the latest research […]

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June 4, 2020 by Alexander Blount

High-Touch Telemedicine

12 minute read The COVID-19 pandemic, for all of the hardship and loss it has heaped upon the US healthcare system, has initiated a period of unparalleled innovation as well.  A great deal of that innovation has been due to the courage and dedication of the physicians, nurses, and administrators on the front lines.  Convention […]

Category iconIntegrated Care News Tag icontelehealth,  telemedicine,  patient-centered care,  trauma-informed care

June 1, 2020 by Nina Russin

China’s Barefoot Doctors as a Model for Population Health Reform in the Wake of COVID-19

3 minute read The COVID-19 pandemic has spawned two healthcare crises: the first focused on containing the disease’s widening footprint, and the second, a behavioral health pandemic created by stress, anxiety and social isolation. Addressing both of these issues requires a population health approach. As such, there is much to be learned from an innovative […]

Category iconIntegrated Care News Tag iconCOVID-19,  rural medicine,  community health workers

Neftali Serrano
May 29, 2020 by Neftali Serrano

Transitioning Again? Reopening Primary Care

2 Minute Read: It seems as if 2020 is the year of perpetual transition as we adjust and learn, adjust and learn. Our last few weeks as a membership has been spent thinking about returning to in-person visits (or not) and concurrently thinking about how our personal lives mirror this transition as states “re-open.” Below […]

Category iconIntegrated Care News Tag iconPrimary Care,  wellness,  integrated care,  COVID-19

Katie Snow
May 25, 2020 by Katie Snow

Telehealth and Context

5 minute read Like many of you, my work as a BHC moved abruptly to 100% phone and video work in mid-March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.  Personally, there have been some downsides to this.  I miss seeing patients in the privacy of an exam room or my office and that irreplaceable connection that […]

Category iconIntegrated Care News Tag iconCOVID-19,  telehealth

Neftali Serrano
May 22, 2020 by Neftali Serrano

Settling Into The New Normal

3 Minute Read CFHA members have worked hard in the last 9 weeks responding to the various challenges posed by the pandemic. These challenges are not going away, however, a great deal of progress has been made in adapting clinical delivery to telehealth, figuring out the economics of all of this and working on the […]

Category iconIntegrated Care News Tag iconPrimary Care,  integrated care,  COVID-19,  telehealth

May 18, 2020 by Martha Saucedo

The Feeling of Guilt During the Pandemic

When my alarm goes off at six AM, I begin my day following the same routine I created the first week of quarantine with the intention of bringing structure to my days. But just like yesterday and the day before, my energy level is not there, my body feels tired, and honestly, I really do […]

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