The Tackling Inequities in Digital Care webinar discusses state and community-level interventions to bridge the digital divide in healthcare and improve access to digital services for marginalized communities. A panel of expert speakers emphasized the importance of providing services to older adult populations that improve digital literacy, while providing support to keep them socially connected by using other older adults as community mentors and guides. The session also discussed how states can partner with communities to coordinate and build platforms that increase access to telehealth, digital devices, and digital literacy training programs, and maximize federal investments to expand digital access.Read More »
This webinar features Dr. Rachel Wightman, cofounder of the Buprenorphine Hotline in Rhode Island, and Dr. Gwen Latendresse from the University of Utah’s Telehealth Pilot Project for pregnant and postpartum women. They describe their work, the federal policy changes that enabled the development of their telehealth models of care, and offer lessons learned and goals for future growth of tele-mental health and substance use programs.Read More »
In this sixth virtual learning session for the PRISM learning community, presenters discuss different facets of adolescent mental health needs. This webinar discusses the challenges that COVID-19 has created for youth mental health, shares lessons learned from a program that supports youth released from a detention center, and shares strategies that state health officials can implement to support and advocate for youth and adolescents with mental health needs both during and beyond the pandemic.Read More »
The Opioid Use Disorder, Maternal Outcomes, and Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome Initiative (OMNI) Learning Community hosted its second ASTHOConnect of Year Two highlighting how primary care providers can be a part of the care team for pregnant/postpartum women and infants experiencing substance use disorder. It featured a presentation from HRSA to provide the federal perspective on engaging primary care associations and leveraging federally qualified health centers for OMNI related work. It also featured two FQHCs on their role providing services to pregnant and postpartum women affected by opioid use disorder and infants prenatally exposed to substances.Read More »
The fourth virtual learning session for the PRISM Learning Community was on the use of telehealth to improve access to substance use disorder treatment, including medically assisted treatment, in maternal and child populations.Read More »
This ASTHOConnects webinar provides an overview of the current national telehealth policy landscape featuring Mei Kwong, Executive Director of the Center for Connected Health Policy. Emerging telehealth issues discussed included telehealth reimbursement across payers, telehealth legislation, and other hot topics. Also featured are state speakers from the ASTHO Telehealth Learning Community including speakers from Florida, Hawaii, Pennsylvania, and Montana.Read More »
The second virtual learning session of the PRISM Learning Community discusses maternal mental health systems change, and how states can use Medicaid Institutions of Mental Diseases (IMD) waivers to improve access to care for pregnant and parenting women with substance use disorder.Read More »
Learn how public and private insurers can finance interventions that incorporate social determinants of health and other social services. Presenters share examples of approaches that are currently in practice and what states need to know before implementing them.Read More »
This ASTHOConnects webinar featured guest speakers and discussion on social determinants of health in Medicaid and the use of big data and predictive analytics in population health.Read More »
ASTHO and CDC hosted a virtual session on improving health disparities in rural communities, with experts from the New Mexico Department of Health, CDC, University of New Mexico Prevention Research Center and South Carolina University Prevention Research Center addressing policy, systems and environmental change strategies for promoting public health in rural settings. Panelists engaged in a discussion about innovative public health programs and partnerships for improving health disparities in rural communities.Read More »