8 results match your criteria: "National Telemental Health Center[Affiliation]"
The Use of Opioids in the Management of Chronic Pain.
Ann Intern Med
September 2023
Opioid Reassessment Clinic, Yale Addiction Psychiatry Service, National TeleMental Health Center, VA Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, Connecticut.
Description: In May 2022, leadership within the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and U.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA Facility-Wide Plan to Increase Access to Medication for Opioid Use Disorder in Primary Care and General Mental Health Settings.
Fed Pract
October 2021
is a Pr imary Care Physician; is an Addiction Psychiatrist and Substance Use Disorder Director, National TeleMental Health Center; is a Research Psychologist; is a Clinical Pharmacy Specialist in mental health (Clinical Resource Hub, Veterans Integrated Service Network 1); is a Clinical Psychologist; is a General Internist; is a Clinical Nurse Coordinator Outpatient Addiction; is an Addiction Psychiatrist; is a Primary Care Physician and National Co-Director for the Veterans Health Administration Primary Care Pain Initiative and Post Deployment Integrated Care Initiative; is an Addiction Psychiatrist and Director of Addiction Treatment programs; all at Veterans Affairs Connecticut Health Care System, in West Haven. is a Primary Care Physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts. is an Investigator and Staff Psychologist at Center for Care Delivery and Outcomes Research, Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Health Care System and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Minnesota School of Medicine. is a Physician, Chief of Addiction Medicine, and Core Faculty at Informatics, Decision-Enhancement, and Analytic Sciences Center, Veterans Affairs Salt Lake City Health Care System and a Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry and Director of the Program for Addiction Research, Clinical Care, Knowledge and Advocacy, Division of Epidemiology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine in Salt Lake City. Marc Rosen is a Professor of Psychiatry; Andrea Burgo is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine; Maria Garcia-Vassallo is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry; William Becker is an Associate Professor of Medicine; Robert MacLean is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry; Ellen Edens is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry; Juliette Spelman is an Assistant Professor of Medicine; Brent Moore is a Research Scientist; all at Yale School of Medicine in New Haven.
Background: The opioid epidemic in the United States has generated a pressing need to enhance access to medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD). This program description illustrates a quality-improvement effort to extend MOUD to primary care and general mental health clinics within the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Connecticut Healthcare system (VACHS), and to examine barriers and facilitators to implementation of MOUD in target clinics.
Observations: As part of the national VA Stepped Care for Opioid Use Disorder Train the Trainer (SCOUTT) initiative to improve MOUD access, a VACHS team identified and resolved barriers to MOUD in target clinics.
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on transgender and gender diverse health care.
Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol
November 2021
Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA; Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA.
Practical lessons learned for assessing and treating bipolar disorder via telehealth modalities during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Bipolar Disord
September 2020
National Telemental Health Center, US Department of Veterans Affairs, Washington, DC, USA.
Evolving Sex and Gender in Electronic Health Records.
Fed Pract
June 2019
is a Clinical Psychologist at the National TeleMental Health Center at VA Boston Healthcare System (VABHS) and an Instructor at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts. is Codirector, Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Health Program in Washington, DC; staff member at the National Center for PTSD at VABHS; and Professor of Psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine in Massachusetts. is Codirector of the VHA South Central Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center at the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center in Houston, Texas. He is Codirector of the LGBT Health Program and a Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. is a Clinical Psychologist and Assistant Professor in the Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Baylor College of Medicine. is a Physician Informacist in systems engineering at the VA National Center for Patient Safety in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Development, training, and documentation for the implementation of a self-identified gender identity field in the electronic health record system may improve patient-centered care for transgender and gender nonconforming patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDual Use of a Patient Portal and Clinical Video Telehealth by Veterans with Mental Health Diagnoses: Retrospective, Cross-Sectional Analysis.
J Med Internet Res
November 2018
Pain Research, Informatics, Multimorbidities and Education Center, VA Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, CT, United States.
Background: Access to mental health care is challenging. The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) has been addressing these challenges through technological innovations including the implementation of Clinical Video Telehealth, two-way interactive and synchronous videoconferencing between a provider and a patient, and an electronic patient portal and personal health record, My HealtheVet.
Objective: This study aimed to describe early adoption and use of My HealtheVet and Clinical Video Telehealth among VHA users with mental health diagnoses.
Home telemental health implementation and outcomes using electronic messaging.
J Telemed Telecare
January 2012
National Telemental Health Center, Veterans Health Administration, West Haven, Connecticut, USA.
In 2007, the VA Connecticut Healthcare System began a home electronic messaging programme for mental health patients. During the first two years, 76 patients with diagnoses of schizophrenia, post traumatic stress disorder, depression and substance-use disorders received a home messaging device, which was connected via an ordinary telephone line. There were daily questions, which were based on disease management protocols, and included alerts, data and educational components.
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