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Earlier this month, SAMHSA and the ONC announced the Behavioral Health Information Technology (BHIT) Initiative
Earlier this month, SAMHSA and the ONC announced the Behavioral Health Information Technology (BHIT) Initiative, which will invest >$20 million to advance health care IT use in behavioral health care settings. Lack of access to health care IT and the higher-level efficiencies and capabilities it offers, such as coordinated care planning and patient/provider access to records, inhibit mental health providers’ from providing access to needed treatment modalities, including telehealth. The initiative will address these challenges by identifying and piloting a set of behavioral health-specific data elements with certain SAMHSA grantees.