SAMHSA and ONC Launch the Behavioral Health IT Initiative

HealthIT Answers February 12, 2024
Micky Tripathi, Miriam E. Delphin-Rittmon

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) will work together to invest more than $20 million of SAMHSA funds over the next three years in an initiative to advance health information technology (IT) in behavioral health care and practice settings. The project supports the HHS Roadmap for Behavioral Health Integration and is consistent with the President’s call to action to prevent, treat, and provide long-term recovery supports for mental illness and substance use disorders.

Health IT adoption among behavioral health providers currently lags behind other providers. This is due in part to their ineligibility to participate in health IT incentive programs, such as those under the...

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