AMA August 11, 2022
Tanya Albert Henry

Integrating mental health care into primary care practices is key to connecting patients to the care they may otherwise have difficulty accessing due to provider shortages or the stigma that so often discourages patients from seeking help for their behavioral health conditions.

Appropriately using virtual care and other digital tools that have become commonplace during the COVID-19 pandemic offers an opportunity for physicians to enhance behavioral health integration (BHI) and enable practices to adopt BHI faster than they would be able to without it.

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