Integrating medical and behavioral health services within primary care practices helps promote more accessible and equitable treatment of patients’ physical, mental and behavioral health needs.
This collection of AMA STEPS Forward™ Practice Innovation Strategies and BHI Collaborative products provides medical practices with evidence-based best practices, tools, aggregated resources, and practical solutions for implementing and maintaining integrated behavioral health care.
The Behavioral Health Integration (BHI) Compendium serves as a tool for learning about the integration of behavioral health care, which includes mental health and substance use disorder care, and how to make it effective for your practice and your patients.
Our goal is to provide accessible, detailed information about the steps necessary to integrate behavioral health care, including mental health and substance use disorders (SUD), into your practice and provide links to resources if you would like more information. specific.
View an overview or download the BHI Compendium.
This collection of tools focuses on behavioral health education, including the resources and support clinicians need to bridge behavioral health and medical services.
Access strategies and solutions to catalyze the effective and sustainable integration of behavioral and mental health care into medical practices.
See discussions about BHI, how COVID-19 has affected mental health needs, and how healthcare professionals are working to address patient needs today and beyond.
This video collection looks at ways clinicians can move forward with integrating behavioral health into their practice, during COVID-19 and beyond.
Practice experts share how they successfully integrated behavioral health care into their practice workflow, creating a seamless experience for patients and the care team.
The AMA provides medical practices with practical tools and solutions for integrating behavioral health programs.
AMA partnered with the RAND Corporation to learn the motivators, enablers, and barriers to BHI from medical practices with first-hand experience.
“We found that integrating behavioral health is possible across a wide variety of medical practices, not just primary care,” said study co-author Peggy G. Chen, MD, a research physician at RAND, a research organization. non profit. “The key factor in the success of behavioral health integration was adaptation to the needs and resources of each practice.”
